John le Carré Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
He was born in Poole, Dorset in England on October 19th, 1931. He went to Sherborne School and, later, studied German literature for one year at University of Bern. Later, he went to Lincoln College, Oxford and graduated in Modern Languages. From 1956 to 1958, he taught at Eton and from 1959 to 1964, he was a member of the British Foreign Service ...
Net Worth
$13 Million
Date Of Birth
October 19, 1931
Place Of Birth
Poole, Dorset, England, UK
Profession
Writer, Producer, Actor
Star Sign
Libra
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15 years ago this was a great Country in which to have a heart attack in the street.
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There's probably nobody more redundant in the film world than a writer of origin hanging around the set of his movie, as I've learned to my cost. Alec Guinness actually did me the favor of having me shown off the set of the BBC's TV adaptation of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." All I was wanting to do was radiate my admiration, but Alec said my glare was too intense.
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[describing a particularly loathsome character in 'A Delicate Truth'] Jay Crispin was your normal, rootless, amoral, plausible, half-educated, nicely spoken frozen adolescent in a bespoke suit, with an unappeasable craving for money, power and respect, regardless where he got them from.
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Writers are two-home men--they want a place outside and a place within.
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[describing how the spies he writes about are different than the "super-hero" secret agent in the James Bond mold] A mostly aging, weary, unromantic lot, prone to distressing stomach ailments and having troubles with their wives.
Although he believes he adopted it after reading it somewhere, he is often credited with creating the word "mole" to refer to a deep-cover intelligence agent.
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St Buryan, Cornwall, UK [November 2011]
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Was one of the closest friends of esteemed director Stanley Kubrick.
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Soviet double-agent Kim Philby, who was a big fan, invited him to have dinner at the Kremlin. He rejected Philby's offer, saying he could never sit at the same table with a traitor.
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Father (with Alison) of Simon Cornwell, Stephen Cornwell, and Timothy Cornwell. Father (with Valérie) of British novelist Nick Harkaway.
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Being a member of MI6 when he wrote his first novel, "Call for the Dead" (1961) in Hamburg, it necessitated the use of a nom de plume, by which he is now commonly known.
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Although the author is an outspoken opponent of the current US government's politics, George W. Bush likes his novels.
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Son of Richard Thomas Archibald Cornwell and Olive Gassy. His novel "A Perfect Spy" (1986) deals with his special relationship with his father.
British double agent and defector Kim Philby blew the cover of many British agents in the Communist bloc after his defection to the Soviet Union, with Le Carre (under his real name of David Cornwell) being one of them.
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 132, pp. 96-103 (as David Cornwell). Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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He allegedly declined the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to literature.
