The Unquiet Englishman

The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene 

by Richard Greene
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The author of this excellent biography is a Canadian poet and scholar who teaches at the University of Toronto. 

Graham Greene is best known as a novelist, and this book discusses his various books and stories in detail. More interestingly, however, Greene was a journalist and associated with Britain's MI6. This took him to troubled places around the globe including Africa, Vietnam, the Soviet Union, and South America. The part of this biography that I found most fascinating was the way the author wove background information on 20th century history into Greene's many travels and political involvements. 

This biography was also written in a very engaging style. The chapters are short and each is quite focused on a particular episode or issue which made this 500+ page book very quick reading. 
I am counting this book toward the Canadian Reading Challenge.