Biography EssayLen Deighton is a celebrated spy-thriller writer and military historian whose fiction is innovative and convincing. His novels are well crafted and entertaining. He has been called "the...
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With his early novels, especially The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin, Len Deighton established himself as one of the mainstays of modern espionage fiction. He is often ranked--along with Graham Gr...
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Len Deighton was born in London on February 18, 1929. "My father was a chauffeur in London, in Marylebone, and my mother was a cook--sort of upstairs-downstairs scene you know."1"Even as a child I kne...
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[This entry was updated by Gina Macdonald (Loyola University) with her entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 35-55.]Len Deighton is a celebrated spy-thriller wri...
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Critical Essay by Michael Howard
Len Deighton is the Flaubert of contemporary thriller writers. He takes enormous, almost obsessional care to get the background to his books exactly right, and he cho...
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Critical Essay by William Kucewicz
Capitalizing on [the continuing interest of the fortieth anniversary of Hitler's invasion of France], Len Deighton—author of "The Ipcress File,...
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Critical Essay by Anthony Boucher
Frankly, I'm not quite sure what to make of … Len Deighton, an experienced frogman who has worked for the Special Investigation Branch of the R.A.F. I&...
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Critical Essay by John L. Stubing
The Hitler Minutes were a transcription of [the clandestine meeting between Churchill and Hitler], and Deighton's latest espionage thriller [XPD] focuses on t...
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Critical Essay by Anthony Boucher
Mr. Deighton's first novel, "The Ipcress File," caused quite a stir among both critics and customers in England, if rather less here. It was a s...
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Critical Essay by Michael Howard
