Recommended biography Michael Shelden's controversial Michael Shelden (born ) [1] is an American biographer and teacher, notable for his authorized biography of George Orwell, his history of Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine, his controversial biography of Graham Greene, and his study of the last years of Mark Twain, Man in White.
Graham Greene: The Man One has to say first, though, that of the four biographies under review, Shelden’s is the best written: its style is vigorous and lucid, its narrative structure is clear and gripping, and it is packed with interesting insights and discoveries, as well as dubious speculations.
A polemical biography (Michael Shelden's In contrast to the meticulous Norman Sherry's multi-volume authorized biography (The Life of Graham Greene: Vol. II, , etc.), Shelden not only braves the protective Greene estate, but also rummages for unreliable rumors and sloppily sourced gossip.
The one-volume biography of Published last month, Michael Shelden's biography of Graham Greene, The Man Within, was immediately pilloried for taking a prurient interest in the author's sex life, for its lack of.
Graham Greene The Man Michael Shelden, who first set out to do “an affectionate portrait” of his man, puts the key to the Greene enigma in his subtitle, “The Enemy Within.” Lurking inside Greene () was a.
Michael Shelden's claims in Michael Shelden, author of “Graham Greene: The Enemy Within,” says the great novelist may have been joking, but many eyebrows will rise at Shelden’s gloss, which occurs a quarter of the way into.
Title: Graham Greene The
The second volume of Sherry's biographical trilogy has just come out, along with a large book by Michael Shelden, described by his publishers as 'the most exciting literary biographer at work. Michael Shelden's The Man Within: For all the cosmetic changes, "Graham Greene: The Enemy Within" remains a calculated act of malice. It is difficult to murder a corpse but Michael Shelden does his best. Whence this animus? Mr. Shelden, previously the biographer of George Orwell, pleads honest outrage at his subject's moral failings.