{{Short description|British author (1925–2016)}} {{for|the American baseball player and coach|Norm Sherry}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Norman Sherry''' FRSL (6 July 1925 – 19 October 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, and educator who was best known for his three-volume biography of the British novelist Graham Greene. He was Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University.
Sherry was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, the younger twin (by eleven minutes) of Alan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/03/norman-sherry-obituary|title = Norman Sherry obituary| website=TheGuardian.com |date = 3 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/10/30/norman-sherry-biographer-of-graham-greene--obituary|title = Norman Sherry, biographer of Graham Greene – obituary|newspaper = The Telegraph|date = 30 October 2016}}</ref> Sherry studied at King's College, Newcastle, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1955.<ref>{{cite book |title=Graduates of the University |date=1960 |publisher=Durham University |location=Durham |page=110 |chapter=Supplement to 1960}}</ref>
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He also wrote on Joseph Conrad, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and Jane Austen. His ''Life of Graham Greene'' was praised by David Lodge for being "a remarkable and heroic achievement" that he predicted would prove "the definitive biography of record" of Greene.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lodge |first=David |date=22 June 1995 |title=The Lives of Graham Greene |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/the-lives-of-graham-greene/ |journal=The New York Review of Books |volume=42 |issue=11 |access-date=29 November 2018}}</ref> Sherry’s third and final volume of his biography of Graham Greene aroused controversy and was criticised by members of Greene’s family.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/books/graham-greene-biography-heavy-on-sex-draws-some-outrage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IVA.pV6r.OAidCuFwvj-P&smid=url-share| title = Graham Greene Biography, Heavy on Sex, Draws Some Outrage| author = Smith, Dinitia| date = November 4, 2004| access-date = January 30, 2026| website = nytimes.com}}</ref>
From 1983, Sherry held the post of Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
He was married three times: first to the children's novelist Sylvia Sherry, then to Carmen Flores (with whom he had a son and a daughter), and finally to Pat Villalon. Sherry died on 19 October 2016 at the age of 91.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/10/30/norman-sherry-biographer-of-graham-greene--obituary/ Norman Sherry, biographer of Graham Greene – obituary] ''The Daily Telegraph'', accessed 30 October 2016.</ref>
==Bibliography== {{Incomplete list|date=July 2016}}
===Books=== *{{cite book |author=Sherry, Norman |title=Conrad's Eastern World |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1966 <!--isbn=0521291208-->}} *{{cite book |author=Sherry, Norman |author-mask=1 |title=Conrad's Western World |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1980 <!--isbn=0521298083-->}} *{{cite book |author=Sherry, Norman |author-mask=1 |title=The life of Graham Greene : volume one, 1904–1939 |location=London |publisher=Jonathan Cape |year=1989 <!--isbn=0224026542-->}} *{{cite book |author=Sherry, Norman |author-mask=1 |title=The life of Graham Greene : volume two, 1939–1955 |location=London |publisher=Jonathan Cape |year=1994 <!--isbn=0224027727-->}} *{{cite book |author=Sherry, Norman |author-mask=1 |title=The life of Graham Greene : volume three, 1955–1991 |location=London |publisher=Jonathan Cape |year=1999 <!--isbn=0224059742-->}}
===Critical studies and reviews=== *{{cite journal |author=Schmude, Karl G. |date=Oct 1995 |title=The character on the page |department=Books |journal=Quadrant |volume=39 |issue=10 |pages=83–84 |url= <!--accessdate=-->}} Review of volume 2 of ''The life of Graham Greene''.
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==External links== *[https://new.trinity.edu/news/norman-sherry Obituary at Trinity University website] *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070609134620/http://wiredforbooks.org/normansherry/index.htm 1989 audio interview with Norman Sherry about Graham Greene by Don Swaim ]}}
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