Norman Lewis was an influential British journalist and a prolific author. Best known for his travel writing, he also wrote twelve novels and several volumes of autobiography. Subjects he explored in his travel writing include life in Naples during the Allied liberation of Italy, and the subsequent Marocchinate; Vietnam and French colonial Indochina; Indonesia; tribal peoples of India; Sicily and the Mafia; and the destruction caused by Christian missionaries in Latin America and elsewhere. A newspaper article entitled "Genocide in Brazil" prompted the creation of Survival International?an organisation dedicated to the protection of indigenous peoples around the world. Graham Greene considered Lewis one of the best writers of the twentieth century. 

June 28th, 1908 in London Borough of Enfield  /  Died:   Jul 22nd, 2003