Graham Greene led one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. The son of a Hertfordshire headmaster, he quickly discovered a love for writing, beginning a career that would last a lifetime. Greene's fascination with global politics took him around the world, to places that would become the settings for many of his most famous novels: Mexico ( ), Sierra Leone ( ), and Haiti ( ) - among dozens of other far-flung locations. He produced masterpieces throughout his life, many of which now stand as indisputably canonical: , and to name but a few.