Inserted loosely in the books were more than 150 letters from figures including poet W. H. Auden and Guy Burgess, the British traitor who spied for the Soviet Union. Evidence from inscriptions in the books and the dates in presentation copies suggest that Greene formed most of his collection from the 1960s onward, a period when he kept a home in Paris and settled in the South of France. Greene traveled so much that he must have over his lifetime disposed of many books.
Graham Henry Greene was born 2 October 1904 in Berkhampsted, Herefordshire, England, the fourth of six children of Charles Henry Greene and Marion Raymond Greene, cousins who shared the same last name. Greene's passion for books had its origins in his childhood. His earliest recollections of reading are found in his autobiography, A Sort of Life (1971), which is dedicated to his brother Hugh and sister Elizabeth, fellow "survivors" of the years when they grew up in the shade of Berkhamsted School, north of London. At the time of Graham's birth their father was second master at that public school, and he later became headmaster.
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