John le Carré

John le Carré (real name is David John Moore Cournwell, born October 19, 1931, Poole, England) is an English writer, author of spy novels. Over the course of a half-century writing career, he has published 22 novels, which are translated into 36 languages. When John was five years old, his father went to jail for fraud, which, according to Le Carré, influenced his penchant for detectives. He studied at school, first…