Norman Sherry

Norman Sherry FRSL (6 July 1925 – 19 October 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, and educator who was most well known for his three-volume biography of the British novelist Graham Greene. He was professor of English literature at Lancaster University. During World War Two, he served in Burma.

For the American baseball player, see Norm Sherry.

Sherry was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, the younger twin (by eleven minutes) of Alan.[1][2] He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He also wrote on Joseph Conrad, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and Jane Austen. His Life of Graham Greene was praised by David Lodge for being "a remarkable and heroic achievement" that he predicted would prove "the definitive biography of record" of Greene.[3]

From 1983, Sherry held the post of Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

He was married three times: first to the children's novelist Sylvia Sherry, then to Carmen Flores (with whom he had a son and a daughter), and finally to Pat Villalon. Sherry died on 19 October 2016 at the age of 91.[4]

Bibliography
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Books
  • Sherry, Norman (1966). Conrad's Eastern World. Cambridge University Press.
  • — (1980). Conrad's Western World. Cambridge University Press.
  • — (1989). The life of Graham Greene : volume one, 1904-1939. London: Jonathan Cape.
  • — (1994). The life of Graham Greene : volume two, 1939-1955. London: Jonathan Cape.
  • — (1999). The life of Graham Greene : volume three, 1955-1991. London: Jonathan Cape.

Critical studies and reviews
  • Schmude, Karl G. (Oct 1995). "The character on the page". Books. Quadrant. 39 (10): 83–84. Review of volume 2 of The life of Graham Greene.

References
  1. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/03/norman-sherry-obituary
  2. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/10/30/norman-sherry-biographer-of-graham-greene--obituary
  3. Lodge, David (1995-06-22). "The Lives of Graham Greene". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  4. Norman Sherry, biographer of Graham Greene – obituary The Daily Telegraph, accessed 30 October 2016.
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