John Le Carré, the British spy-turned-novelist best known for the Cold War thrillers
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
has died at age 89 of pneumonia.
He worked for Britain's intelligence service before turning his hand to spy novels,
which helped define the genre and shed light on
the rivalry between the United States
and the Soviet Union.
Le Carre wrote 25 novels
and one memoir in a career spanning 60 years,
selling some 60 million books worldwide.
David John Moore Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carré,
was a British author of espionage novels.
During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service
and the Secret Intelligence Service.
Born: October 19, 1931
Died: December 12, 2020
my favorite novelist
he will be missed.