About
British author, playwright, and literary critic whose works include The Third Man, Brighton Rock, and The Human Factor. He was the 1961 runner-up for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote over 30 published books throughout his prolific career.
Before Fame
He attended Balliol College, Oxford, and published his first book of poems, Babbling April, in 1925.
Trivia
He received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay for The Fallen Idol. The last novel published during his life was The Captain and the Enemy in 1988.
Family Life
He wed Vivien Dayrell-Browning in 1927. After the births of his two children, Caroline and Francis, he had an affair with his married goddaughter, Catherine Walston.
Associated With
He has been compared to Henry James.
