The Greene Chronology: Some Major Dates and Events

Abstract

Henry Graham Greene is born on 2 October 1904 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Among his first words are ‘Poor dog’, a reference to his sister’s dead pug that had been run over by a carriage and carried home lying at baby Graham’s feet in his pram. He is the son of Charles Henry Greene, later to become headmaster of Berkhamsted school (1910–27), and Marion Raymond Greene, first cousin of one of Greene’s early literary heroes, Robert Louis Stevenson. Greene himself is the cousin of another of the century’s major writers, Christopher Isherwood.