AKA David John Moore Cornwell

Born: 19-Oct-1931
Birthplace: Poole, Dorset, England

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold

Member of the British Foreign Service 1959-64.

Father: Ronnie Cornwell (swindler)
Mother: (deserted the family when he was 5)
Wife: Ann Martin (m. 1954, div. 1971, three children)
Wife: Jane Eustace (m. 1974, one child)

    High School: Sherborne School
    University: German Literature, Berne University (studied 1948-49)
    University: Modern Languages, Lincoln College, Oxford University (1956)

    Edgar Allan Poe Award Grand Master (1984)
    Edgar Allan Poe Award Best Novel, for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    The Little Drummer Girl (19-Oct-1984)

Is the subject of books:
Taking Sides: The Fiction of John Le Carré, 1986, BY: Tony Barley
Spying on Le Carré, 1991, BY: Ulrike Holtman
John Le Carré, 1992, BY: LynnDiane Beene
The Spy Novels of John Le Carré: Balancing Ethics and Politics, 2001, BY: Myron J. Aronoff
Le Carré's Landscape, 2001, BY: Tod Hoffman

Author of books:
Call for the Dead (1961, novel)
A Murder of Quality (1962, novel)
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963, novel)
Looking Glass War (1965, novel)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974, novel)
Smiley's People (1979, novel)
The Little Drummer Girl (1983, novel)
A Perfect Spy (1986, novel)
The Russia House (1989, novel)
The Secret Pilgrim (1991, novel)
The Night Manager (1993, novel)
Our Game (1995, novel)
The Tailor of Panama (1996, novel)
Single & Single (1999, novel)
The Constant Gardener (2000, novel)
Absolute Friends (2004, novel)

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