A Talk About Two Geniuses:
Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene By Norman Sherry

Norman Sherry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He obtained his PhD from the National University of Singapore, where he worked on his thesis on Joseph Conrad. His books on Conrad include Conrad’s Eastern World (1966), Conrad’s Western World (1971), and Conrad and His World (1972) which are still quoted by scholars as standard texts on Conrad.

Impressed with the works on Conrad, Graham Greene asked Sherry in 1974 to write his biography. The three-volume biography of Graham Greene was published with great acclaim between 1990 and 2004. The first volume earned him the Edgar Allen Poe Award and the second volume was designated as ‘One of the best eleven books of 1995’ by the editorial staff of the New York Times Book Review.

He is currently a professor of English at Trinity University and is known for his informative, lively, informal and highly anecdotal lectures.

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