Joe Nordgren wrote The Literary Encyclopedia : The Quiet American .
According to critic Philip Stratford , quoted in `` The Quiet American '' by Joe Nordgren , “ American readers were incensed , perhaps not so much because of the biased portrait of obtuse and destructive American innocence and idealism in Alden Pyle , but because in this case it was drawn with such acid pleasure by a middle-class English snob like Thomas Fowler with whom they were all too ready to identify with Greene himself ” .
The Quiet American