Seeds of Fiction: Graham Greene’s Adventures in Haiti and Central America, 1954-1983

In 1965, Graham Greene joined journalist Bernard Diederich in the Dominican Republic to embark on a tour of its border with Haiti, then ruled by ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier. They were accompanied by an activist priest, Jean-Claude Bajeux. This major biography fully illuminates a pivotal episode in Greene’s life and career in the kind of detail that will sate any fans of Graham Greene’s work, but also provides a fascinating glimpse into a writer’s life, making it an essential purchase for fans of literary biography. Including extensive new archive material on Greene, this book tells the story of how a series of extraordinary and often hair-raising journeys gave one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century new inspiration in his writing.