The Boston Globe, April 4th, 1991
Graham Greene was Robert Louis Stevenson's first cousin once removed. It's oddly fitting that Greene, who died yesterday at 86, should be related to the author of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," for his life -- his career -- flourished on paradox. One of the century's most acclaimed English novelists, Greene derived much of his reputation from thrillers (books he blithely dismissed as "entertainments"). Though a profound skepticism marked everything he wrote, he swore allegiance to two great -- and opposed -- dogmas, Roman Catholicism and Marxism. He was a traditional "man of letters," publishing 6...
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