John le Carre

Real Name: David John Moore Cornwell

Date of Birth: 19 October 1931

Place of Birth: Poole, Dorset, England

Biography

Received a public school education and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. Taught at Eton and spent five years in the 'British Foreign Service'.

Books Written

• 1961 Call for the Dead
• 1962 A Murder of Quality
• 1963 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• 1965 The Looking Glass War
• 1968 A Small Town in Germany
• 1971 The Naïve and Sentimental Lover
• 1974 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• 1977 The Honourable Schoolboy
• 1979 Smiley's People
• 1983 The Little Drummer Girl
• 1986 A Perfect Spy
• 1989 The Russia House
• 1990 The Secret Pilgrim
• 1991 The Unbearable Peace (non-fiction)
• 1993 The Night Manager
• 1995 Our Game
• 1996 The Tailor of Panama
• 1999 Single & Single
• 2001 The Constant Gardener
• 2003 Absolute Friends
• 2006 The Mission Song
• 2008 A Most Wanted Man
• 2010 Our Kind of Traitor