Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer, novelist and journalist.
After leaving Balliol College, Oxford, he worked for four years as an assistant editor at The Times. He established his fame with his fourth novel, The Istanbul Train. In 1935 he made a journey through Liberia, described in A Journey Without Maps, was appointed to the Roman Catholic Church and visited Mexico in 1938 to write about religious persecution there. As a result, he wrote Illegal Roads and later, his best-known novel, The Power and the Glory.