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), A Murder of Quality (1962), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), The Looking Glass War (1965), A Small Town in Germany (1968), The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), Smiley's People (1979), The Little Drummer Girl (1983), A Perfect Spy (1986), The Russia House (1989), The Secret Pilgrim (1990), The Night Manager (1993), Our Game (1995), The Tailor of Panama (1996), Single & Single (1999), The Constant Gardener (2001), Absolute Friends (2003), The Mission Song (2006), A Most Wanted Man (2008), Our Kind of Traitor (2010), A Delicate Truth (2013), A Legacy of Spies (2017),
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), 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.),
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