In Greeneland

One day in 1948, in a gray and dreary postwar London, Evelyn Waugh stumbled upon Graham Greene at midday Mass. They were the most distinguished and thriving novelists of their generation in England, yet Greene was “shambling, unshaven,” and, Waugh

Mr. Simmons is the author of Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin and director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College.