Norman Sherry

For the American baseball player, see Norm Sherry.

Norman Sherry (born 6 July 1925 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England) is an English born American novelist, biographer, and educator who is most well known for his three-volume biography of the British novelist Graham Greene. He was professor of English literature at Lancaster University.

Sherry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has also written on Joseph Conrad, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and Jane Austen. Volume 1 of his Life of Graham Greene, and volume 2 "one of the Best Eleven Books of 1995" by the editors of The New York Review of Books.

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

He was formerly married to the children's novelist Sylvia Sherry.

References

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/books/04gree.html

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