John le Carré
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John le Carré was a British novelist who wrote spy thrillers and also worked as an actual spy, drawing on his real intelligence experience to create some of the most acclaimed espionage fiction of the Cold War era. His novels matter because they offered readers sophisticated, realistic portrayals of espionage and international intrigue during a time when such stories shaped how people understood the world around them.
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David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), known by his pen name John le Carré (/ləˈkæreɪ/ lə-KARR-ay), was an English author. Many of his espionage novels have been adapted for film or television. He has been described as a "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", and 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). 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, and was adapted into an award-winning film. This success allowed him to leave MI6 to become a full-time author.
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