The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by English author Graham Greene.
First edition
Cover of the second German edition from 1956, which according to the cover inscription was on sale only 8 weeks after the first edition, implicity telling that the first had already been sold out
Henry Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.
Greene in 1975
Greene was born in Berkhamsted School where his father taught.
Graham Greene's birthplace blue plaque
Gravestone at Corseaux, Switzerland