López Cortezo, Pedro M., 1936-

Graham Henry Greene was born on Oct. 2, 1904 in Berkhamsted, England to Charles Henry Greene and Marion Raymond Greene. His father was headmaster of Berkhamsted School, which Greene attended from 1915 until 1921. He completed his formal education at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a second in modern history in 1925. The next year Greene converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, and, in 1927, married Vivien Dayrell Browning, a fellow Catholic. They had two children, Lucy Caroline and Francis. Greene, a prolific writer, is best known as a novelist, though he also wrote plays, short stories, and non-fiction. He was on the staff of The times, London from 1926 to 1930 and was literary editor of The spectator during 1940 and 1941. He contributed film criticism to the short-lived periodical Night and day (July 1-Dec. 23, 1937), and, in 1954, was the Indochina correspondent for The new republic. During World War II he worked for the British Foreign Office and was stationed in Africa. In 1977 he was a member of the Panamanian delegation to Washington for the signing of the Panama Canal Treaties. Greene died on April 3, 1991 in Vevey, Switzerland.

Pedro M. López Cortezo was born in 1936 in Bayonne, France to Spanish parents. In 1966 he married an American woman in Gibraltar, and they moved together to the United States. López Cortezo began working for Grolier Inc. as an assistant editor in 1969. He was transferred from the New York office to Mexico in 1978 and became the Grolier editorial director for Latin American publications. He left the company after it was acquired by Hachette, but continued to live in Mexico City until his retirement at age 65. In 2003, at the time that he donated the Greene letters to the Georgetown University Library, López Cortezo was living in San Antonio, Texas.