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Le Carré, John
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Le Carré, John, pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (1931– ), whose first novel,
Call for the Dead (1961), introduced the mild-mannered mastermind and secret agent George Smiley, who appears in many of his later books.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), a cold-war thriller inspired by the Berlin Wall, brought Le Carré immediate fame. Its successors,
The Looking Glass War (1965),
A Small Town in Germany (1968),
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974),
The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), and
Smiley's People (1980), confirmed his reputation as a story-teller who mixes grim and realistic detail with Byzantine elaboration of plot.
The Little Drummer Girl (1983) was followed by
A Perfect Spy (1986),
The Russia House (1989),
The Secret Pilgrim (1992),
The Night Manager (1993), and
Our Game (1995), set in the aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union. Recent novels include
Single & Single (1999) and
The Constant Gardener (2001).
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le Carre steps out of shadows
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 12/24/2000; ; 700+ words
; le Carre steps out of shadows By MARTA SALIJ Knight...2000 -- The Constant Gardener. By John le Carre. Scribner. 492 pages. $28. How could...so black and white? And how do we make John le Carre, spy writer nonpareil, go back into...
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John Le Carre, The Spy Spinner After the Thaw;With `Russia House,' the Author Warms Up to Espionage in a Different Climate
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/25/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...began to melt, outside and inside. John le Carre' had been chiseling the fine dark...would thaw in my own lifetime," le Carre' says. He is gazing out the window...the monolith was breaking up." Le Carre' is thinking back to the spring...
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`Murder' is colorless John le Carre
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/12/1991; ; 700+ words
; John le Carre has complained that Alec Guinness took...viewers' and readers' minds, the image of le Carre's chief protagonist, who was pudgy...It must have been tempting, then, for le Carre as screenwriter to remake Smiley in his...
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Le Carre takes on New Yorker's Tina Brown
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/15/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...Brown, British espionage writer John le Carre attacks the editor's "partisan...insults and large-scale defenses. "Le Carre has somehow gone very choleric...Murdoch-owned Fox network? Should John le Carre acknowledge that his publisher...
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The War According to John le Carre
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/23/2003; ; 700+ words
; John le Carre, the author of some brilliant spy novels...choice -- "the Bay of Pigs." Maybe le Carre means the Cuban missile crisis. It's...down from 62 percent in December. Since le Carre's article was published Jan. 15, he...
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`The Constant Gardener,' by John le Carre; Scribner.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 12/13/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...black and white? And how do we make John le Carre, spy writer nonpareil, go back...must be some shadows still. Even if le Carre has been without his best villain...doing what it takes to survive. Le Carre has built a peerless career drawing...
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Le Carre's fearless excursion into the war on terror.(Law and Literature)(Jonathan Yardley on John le Carre's 'A Most Wanted Man')
Magazine article from: LawNow; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...in the Washington Post, lambasts John le Carre's new novel, A Most Wanted Man...Yardley is put off by a letter le Carre sent with the advance copies of his...The irritated reviewer condemns le Carre for engaging in a preemptive strike...
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Le Carre's thrilling books.(Opinion and Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 11/19/2008; 700+ words
; ...scene with his James Bond series, John le Carre' was already a widely acclaimed...of Smiley were really those of John le Carre's himself. You see, the celebrated...Filipino audience. Last October 27, John le Carre was interviewed by BBC News monitored...
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Learning at the feet of the master of treachery; THE IoS PROFILE: John le Carre At the age of 71 the creator of George Smiley has embarked on one last mission: to lay to rest the ghost of his feckless, wife-beating father
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/17/2002; ; 700+ words
; John le Carre is apt to remember Graham Greene's dictum...think that all writers feel alienated," Le Carre says. "Most of us go back to an alienated...the extraordinary forces that shaped Le Carre's literary personality are there in the...
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Early le Carre: A treat for his fans
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/28/2004; ; 700+ words
; CALL FOR THE DEAD By John le Carre Walker. $18. A MURDER OF QUALITY By John le Carre Walker. $18. JOHN LE CARRE'S The Spy Who Came In From the Cold was America...
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John Le Carre
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Le Carre The British author John Le Carre (born David Cornwell, 1931) was regarded by many as the...themes which qualify him for consideration as a serious writer. John Le Carre was born David Cornwell on October 19, 1931, in Poole, Dorset...
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Rupert Davies
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Windsor whose wife helps to trick Sir John Falstaff, in a television production...in from the Cold, an adaptation of John Le Carre's best seller about a disenchanted...Alec Guinness in the TV production of Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy...
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Gibbs, Matyelok
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...To Kill a Priest (also known as Le complot and Popieluszko ), Columbia...Nell, A Perfect Spy (also known as John Le Carre's "A Perfect Spy" ), BBC, 1987...Briones, "Hidden Agenda," Judge John Deed, BBC, 2001. Mrs. Brandon...
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Firth, Julian
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...Movies: Davis, Scum, 1977. John Oldbury, Shake Hands Forever, 1988...Boyd, A Perfect Spy (also known as John Le Carre's A Perfect Spy ), BBC, 1987...Daredevils of the Desert, 1992. Father John Fisher, Shadowlands, Savoy, 1993...
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Cornwell, Charlotte 1949–
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...half sister of David Cornwell (a writer; also known as John Le Carre); children: (with Kenneth Cranham, an actor) Nancy...Paramount, 1997. Narrator, Ghosts of Mars (also known as John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars ), Screen Gems, 2001. Aunt...
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