Graham Greene
Graham Greene A Sort of Life (autobiography) Greene walks the reader through his memories of notable sights in his hometown of Berkhamsted , with its chapel, canal, and renowned boarding school . Greene describes his first day of school as the The curtain wall and yard of the old castle that Graham Greene says was built by Chaucer in the 13th century. The castle bailey is site of a modern alms house. Berkhamsted School Berkhamsted School in 1907, when Greene was 3 years old and living at St. John's , one of the campus boarding houses, where his father was housemaster. He would later become headmaster of the school. When Greene returned to St. John's as a boarder at age 13, he writes that "most of [his] memories (and very unhappy ones they are) of the time date back to that time." Indeed, boarding at school must be an awful existence for the children. School can be bad enough without having to live there, too. Photo courtesy of Hertfordshire Genealogy we