John le Carré

Le Carré in 2008

John le Carré (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020) was an English novelist. He was born in Poole, Dorset. He wrote many spy novels. The name is a pseudonym. His real name was David John Moore Cornwell.

Le Carré graduated from Lincoln College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Le Carré died from pneumonia at Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, England on 12 December 2020, at age 89.

His works

Novels

• Call for the Dead (1961), ISBN 0-143-12257-6
• A Murder of Quality (1962), ISBN 0-141-19637-8
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), ISBN 0-143-12475-7
• The Looking Glass War (1965), ISBN 0-143-12259-2
• A Small Town in Germany (1968), ISBN 0-143-12260-6
• The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971), ISBN 0-143-11975-3
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), ISBN 0-143-12093-X
• The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), ISBN 0-143-11973-7
• Smiley's People (1979), ISBN 0-340-99439-8
• The Little Drummer Girl (1983), ISBN 0-143-11974-5
• A Perfect Spy (1986), ISBN 0-143-11976-1
• The Russia House (1989), ISBN 0-743-46466-4
• The Secret Pilgrim (1990), ISBN 0-345-50442-9
• The Night Manager (1993), ISBN 0-345-38576-4
• Our Game (1995), ISBN 0-345-40000-3
• The Tailor of Panama (1996), ISBN 0-345-42043-8
• Single & Single (1999), ISBN 0-743-45806-0
• The Constant Gardener (2001), ISBN 0-743-28720-7
• Absolute Friends (2003), ISBN 0-670-04489-X
• The Mission Song (2006), ISBN 0-340-92199-4
• A Most Wanted Man (2008), ISBN 1-416-59609-7
• Our Kind of Traitor (2010), ISBN 0-143-11972-9
• A Delicate Truth (2013), ISBN 0-143-12531-1
• A Legacy of Spies (2017), ISBN 978-0-735-22511-4

Non-fiction

• The Good Soldier (1991), collected in Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace
• The United States Has Gone Mad (2003), collected in Not One More Death (2006), ISBN 1-844-67116-X
• Afterword (2014), an essay on Kim Philby, published in A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre
• The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life (2016)

Short stories

• "Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn?" (1967), in The Saturday Evening Post, 28 January 1967.
• "What Ritual is Being Observed Tonight?" (1968), in the Saturday Evening Post, 2 November 1968.
• "The Writer and The Horse" (1968), in The Savile Club Centenary Magazine and later The Argosy (and The Saturday Review under the title A Writer and A Gentleman).
• "The King Who Never Spoke" (2009), in Ox-Tales: Fire, 2 July 2009.

Omnibus

• The Incongruous Spy (1964), containing Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality
• The Quest for Karla (1982), containing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People (republished in 1995 as Smiley Versus Karla in the UK; and John Le Carré: Three Complete Novels in the U.S.), ISBN 0-394-52848-4

Screenplays

• End of the Line (1970), broadcast 29 June 1970
• A Murder of Quality (1991)
• The Tailor of Panama (2001), with John Boorman and Andrew Davies

Executive producer

• The Tailor of Panama (2001)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
• A Most Wanted Man (2014)
• The Night Manager (2016)
• Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

Actor

• The Little Drummer Girl (1984), as David Cornwell
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), as John le Carré
• A Most Wanted Man (2014)
• Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
• The Night Manager (2016), as David Cornwell

Other websites

• John le Carré homepage
• John le Carré biography on Books and Writers Archived 2008-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
• 1989 NPR Interview of le Carré