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Biography

Name: John Le Carre
Variant Name: David Cornwell
Birth Date: October 19, 1931
Place of Birth: Poole, England
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of John Le Carre
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The British author John Le Carre (born David Cornwell, 1931) was regarded by many as the foremost spy novelist of his time because his works go beyond being mere thrillers. They recreate the gritty realism of the spy business, exploring relationships...
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Biography of John le Carre
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[This entry was updated by John L. Cobbs (Kutztown University) from the entry by Joan DelFattore (University of Delaware) in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 212-227.] John le Carré (pseudonym of David John...
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Biography of John Le Carre
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John le Carre (pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell) is the author of realistic spy stories resembling those of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene. His best-known novels are The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1963) and the George Smiley trilogy: Tinker,...
 


Quotations
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John le Carré Quotes
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John le Carré is the pen-name of David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931 ), a British writer of spy novels, and a former spy himself. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Tinker (1974) 1.2 Smiley's People (1979) 1.3 The Constant Gardener (2001) 2 External...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Le Carré, John (1931—) Summary
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In a review of James Fennimore Cooper's The Spy (1823), the critic wrote: "No sympathy can be excited with meanness, and there must be a degree of meanness ever associated with the idea of Spy." Eighty years later the Morning Post...
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Le CarrÉ, John
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(born October 19, 1931, Poole, Dorset, England) English writer of suspenseful, realistic spy novels based on a wide knowledge of international espionage. Educated abroad and at the University of Oxford, le Carré taught French and Latin at Eton...
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Le CarrÉ, John
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(born Oct. 19, 1931, Poole, Dorset, Eng.) British novelist. As a member of the foreign service in West Germany from 1959, he acquired firsthand knowledge of international espionage. He began to write full-time after the success of his third novel, the...
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John le Carré Information
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John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England), an English writer of espionage novels. Le Carré has resided in St Buryan, Cornwall, Great Britain, for more than forty...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
The War According to John le Carre
01/23/2003: 801 words, approx. 3 pages
John le Carre, the author of some brilliant spy novels, writes in the Times of London that "America has entered one of its periods of historical madness." The present time is "worse than McCarthyism" and even worse than -- an odd choice -- "the...
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The Washington Post
Debriefing John Le Carre
11/08/1992: 1,969 words, approx. 7 pages
IT'S FALL, and the writers have hit the road. Scores of them converged last month at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto, and 200 more will soon make an appearance at the Miami Book Fair. Singly, too, they're moving around, with Washington a...
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AP Features
Today in History
10/8/2007: 590 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Friday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2007. There are 73 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 19, 1781, British troops under Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Va., as the American Revolution neared its end.On this date:In 1765, the...
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AP News
Today in history - Oct. 19
10/19/2007: 590 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Friday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2007. There are 73 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 19, 1781, British troops under Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Va., as the American Revolution neared its end.On this date:In 1765, the...
 


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