Norman Sherry, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, is also the author of Conrad's Eastern World, Conrad's Western World, Charlotte and Emily Bronte and Jane Austen. Norman Sherry received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for The Life of Graham Greene, Volume I: 1904-1939. The Life of Graham Greene, Volume II: 1939-1955 appeared as one of the Books of the Century: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas, and Literature, Random House, 1998, and was chosen by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as 'one of the best eleven books of 1995'.