There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

Ovid, 43 – 17
John Le Carre biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of John Le Carre

Author Name:

John Le Carre

Born As:

Pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwall

Other Names:

Born:

19 Oct 1931

Died:





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Novelist                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

Call for the Dead - 1961
A Murder of Quality - 1962
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - 1963 - Edgar Award 1965, Best Novel
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
[edit]Non-fiction
The Unbearable Peace - 1991

Short stories:

Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn? - 1967 published in the Saturday Evening Post January 28, 1967
What Ritual is Being Observed Tonight? - 1968 published in the Saturday Evening Post November 2, 1968
The Writer and The Horse - 1968 published in The Savile Club Centenary Magazine and later The Argosy.

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

Screenplays:
End of the Line - 1970 broadcast June 29, 1970
A Murder of Quality - 1991
The Tailor of Panama - 2001 with John Boorman and Andrew Davies
[edit]Executive producer
The Tailor of Panama - 2001

Actor:
The Little Drummer Girl - 1984, as David Cornwell.                          
Mother Olive Gassy
Father Richard Thomas Archibald Cornwell, three children.

David John Moore Cornwall's mother, abandoned him at the age of five, and  was reacquainted with her at the age of 21. David John Moore Cornwall had  a difficult relationship with his father, who had been jailed for insurance fraud and was constantly in debt.                           
                          
Worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950's and 1960's.