John le carré real name
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The Secret Life of John le Carré (Hardback)
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'Now that he is dead, we can know him better.'
Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over four decades. To keep these relat
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John le Carré: The Biography
David Cornwell aka John Le Carré was a child of privilege (Eton, Oxford, British Foreign Service, et al) who had a rather leaky family structure. Father Ronnie, and David’s nemesis, was a confidence trickster on the grand scale (football pools, airlines, real estate, international trading, even trading on his son’s reputation – Daddy had done it all, and gone to jail many times for his transgressions); his mother deserted the family when David was a child. David learned early in life to mistrust love, which made him a good spy. He was a recluse and bloomed late – and when he did, he went full bore.
He was recruited by MI5 and MI6 as an agent while still in school, and later worked for both agencies despite their different missions and work cultures (MI5 was for old war vets and MI6 was for idealistic university grads from posh families). He was a budding poet and cartoonist, but took to writing because he was bored. Given his family connections
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John le Carré
British novelist and former spy (1931–2020)
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré (lə-KARR-ay),[1] was a British author,[2] best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer",[3] he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).[4] Near the end of his life, le Carré became an Irish citizen.
Le Carré's third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller, was adapted as an award-winning film, and remains one of his best-known works. This success allowed him to leave MI6 to become a full-time author.[5] His other novels that have been adapted for film or television include The Looking Glass War (1965), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), Smiley's People (1979
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