|
John le Carré’s novel THE LOOKING GLASS WAR is the next instalment in the BBC dramatisation of the Smiley Novels. The first part will air on Sunday 20th September at 3pm and the second part will follow on Sunday 27th...
|
|
|
John le Carré is the nom de plume of David John Moore Cornwell, who was born in 1931 in Poole, Dorset, and was educated at Sherborne School, at the University of Berne (where he studied German literature for a year) and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in modern languages.
|
|
|
Encyclopedia: John le Carré
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...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Carré |
|
|
His character was based more or less on two true life persons: Lord Clanmorris, who wrote novels under the name John Bingham and who worked for MI5, and Vivian Green, who was Le Carre's teacher at Oxford. In this story a Soviet double agent has revealed some of the best agents in the English spy network.
|
|
|
John le Carré was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Berne and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, his third book, secured him a worldwide reputation.
|
|
|
John le Carré products IMDb Resume: Do you represent John le Carré? Add a resume and photos to this page with IMDb Resume. Other Authors Like Le Carre?
|
|
|
America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in The reaction to 9/11 is beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped for in his nastiest dreams. The imminent war was planned years before bin Laden struck,
|
|
|
Artist profiles: Robert Stone Damascus Gate | Peter Dickinson | Philip Pullman His Dark Materials | Lindsey Davis | Iris Murdoch | John le Carre | Tom Wolfe | Harold Brodkey | Blanche McCrary Boyd | William Wharton | Joseph McElroy | Ward Just | G Spencer Brown music: Joni Mitchell | Marta Sebestyen | Mary...
|
|
|
John le Carré complains that he has been branded an anti-Semite as a result of a politically correct witch-hunt and declares himself innocent of the charge. It would be easier to sympathize with him had he not been so ready to join in an earlier campaign of vilification against a fellow writer.
|
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
