Editing Graham Greene (section)

===Oxford University===
He attended [[Balliol College, Oxford]], to study history. During 1922 Greene was for a short time a member of the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]], and sought an invitation to the new [[Soviet Union]], of which nothing came.<ref name="G">{{cite web|url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/Gi-He/Greene-Graham.html|title=Graham Greene Biography|work=notablebiographies.com|access-date=11 March 2016}}</ref> In 1925, while he was an undergraduate at Balliol, his first work, a poorly received volume of poetry titled ''Babbling April'', was published.<ref name="G" />

Greene had periodic bouts of depression while at Oxford, and largely kept to himself.<ref name="oxforddnb.com">Michael Shelden, 'Greene, (Henry) Graham (1904–1991)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/40460, accessed 15 May 2011]</ref> Of Greene's time at Oxford, his contemporary [[Evelyn Waugh]] noted that: "Graham Greene looked down on us (and perhaps all undergraduates) as childish and ostentatious. He certainly shared in none of our revelry."<ref name="oxforddnb.com" /> He graduated in 1925 with a [[British undergraduate degree classification|second-class degree]] in history.<ref name="G" />