Le Carre
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John le Carré in Hamburg, 2008
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| Born | David John Moore Cornwell 19 October 1931 Poole, Dorset, England |
| Occupation | Novelist Former intelligence officer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Sherborne School |
| Alma mater | Lincoln College, Oxford |
| Genre | Spy fiction |
| Notable works |
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy The Honourable Schoolboy Smiley's People A Perfect Spy The Night Manager The Constant Gardener |
| Spouse | Alison Sharp (m. 1954–71) Valerie Eustace (m. 1972–present) |
| Children | 4 sons |
| Website | |
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David John Moore Cornwell, alias John le Carré /lə ˈkɑːrˌeɪ/, (born 19 October 1931) is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, and began writing novels under his pen name. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author.
In 2008, The Times ranked him 22nd on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
In 2011, he was awarded the Goethe Medal.
Cornwell was born on 19 October 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England. His father was Ronald Thomas Archibald (Ronnie) Cornwell (1906–75), and his mother is Olive (Glassy) Cornwell. He has an older brother, Tony, two years his elder, now a retired advertising executive. His younger half-sister is the actress Charlotte Cornwell. His younger half-brother, Rupert Cornwell, is a former Washington bureau chief for the newspaper The Independent. Cornwell said he did not know his mother, who abandoned him when he was five years old, until their re-acquaintance when he was 21 years old. His relationship with his father was difficult given that he had been jailed for insurance fraud; was an associate of the Kray twins; and was continually in debt. A biographer reports, "His father, Ronnie, made and lost his fortune a number of times due to elaborate confidence tricks and schemes which landed him in prison on at least one occasion. This was one of the factors that led to le Carré's fascination with secrets."
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