Back in the ‘80s, before I became an entertainment journalist, I worked my way through university at a video distributor, ...

A work by John le Carré is like an intimate conversation at a club, say, or a restaurant: anecdotes well told, then brilliantly expanded; "entertaining" is barely a good enough word for it. His ...

John le Carré, a British author who drew on the enigma of his incorrigibly criminal father and his own experiences as a Cold War-era spy to write powerful novels about a bleak, ...

John le Carré, the British spy novelist behind dozens of works including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, has died at 89 in Cornwall, England.

The English novelist John le Carré (given name: David Cornwell) never sufficiently explained his nom de plume. Of course, we know why he needed one: He still worked for MI6, the British ...

"The Pigeon Tunnel," a new Apple TV+ documentary from Erroll Morris reveals that John le Carré had a life that filled with betrayals and surprising twists — like his spy novels.

I'm not a fan of labels, of categories. Le Carré is sometimes called a spy novelist. Rubbish. He's a novelist of the first ...

John le Carré’s archive saves his children a £1.5m tax bill as family expands his world on screen and page - The master of spy fiction’s archive officially classed as cultural heritage.

When John le Carré contemplated writing an autobiography, he hired two detectives to investigate his life. “I’m a liar,” the spy-turned-novelist told them. “Born to lying, bred to it ...

During this period, Cornwell rose early and wrote three novels under the pseudonym John le Carré: Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, and, in 1963, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.

A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré; By John le Carré, edited by Tim Cornwell; Viking; 752 pp., $40.

John le Carré, whose birth name was David Cornwell, died in 2020. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation. Open Search. Fog icon. 75 ...