When John le Carré’s father died, in 1975, the novelist did not mourn. He rejoiced. After completing his masterpiece, “A Perfect Spy,” published 11 years later, he told an interviewer that he had ...

Biographies about writers, no matter how high their subjects sit upon Mount Immortality, are, in essence, dubious propositions in large part because, well, they’re writers. The most interesting things ...

“I’m a liar,” John le Carre explained to Adam Sisman, his biographer. “Born to lying, bred to it, trained to it by an industry that lies for a living, practiced in it as a novelist.” John le Carre, 84 ...

Adam Sisman seems dazed. The night before I speak with him, he attended a launch party for his latest book, the 672-page biography John le Carré, about the prolific British spy novelist, which took ...

Writer Adam Sisman discusses his two books about the spy novelist John le Carré and the ample access that made them possible. We're sorry, but something went wrong ...

For decades, John le Carré’s books have been the gold standard against which all literary espionage fiction is measured. A le Carré book combines a powerful grasp of the spy world’s slippery morality ...

It is made into a superior film with Richard Burton, the biggest star of the moment as well as the potential Shakespearean successor to Laurence Olivier, as the brooding antihero Leamas. Millions more ...

John le Carré Biography David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 - 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré, was a British author of espionage novels.

‘A Private Spy,” a 630-page collection of the letters of John le Carré—David Cornwell in real life—is not as revealing of this secretive, canny man as Adam Sisman’s 2015 biography or as engaging as le ...

John le Carré, the gold standard of modern espionage novelists, knows almost nothing about spying — or so he says. The writer (real name: David Cornwell) worked briefly for MI5, the British ...

Two master performers, the filmmaker Errol Morris and the writer John le Carré, circle the truth in this mesmerizing biographical documentary. By Jeannette Catsoulis A contentious discussion with the ...