John le Carré

John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England). He began his formal schooling at Sherborne School in England. Later, he studied at the University of Berne, developing a fascination in foreign languages, and Lincoln College, Oxford, then he taught at Eton College for 2 years. He then joined the British Foreign Service (ultimately MI6), where he served mostly in West Germany. Kim Philby, notorious British double agent, gave le Carré's name up to the Russians.

Bibliography

• Call for the Dead - - (1961)
• A Murder of Quality - (1962)
• The Spy who Came in from the Cold - (1963)
• The Incongruous Spy (omnibus) - (1964)
• "Call for the Dead"
• "A Murder of Quality"
• 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) ISBN 0394508432
• The Quest for Karla (omnibus) - (1982)
• "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
• "The Honourable Schoolboy"
• "Smiley's People"
• The Little Drummer Girl - (1983)
• A Perfect Spy - (1986)
• The Russia House - (1989)
• The Secret Pilgrim - (1991)
• The Unbearable Peace - (1991)
• The Night Manager - (1993)
• Our Game - (1995)
• The Tailor of Panama - (1996)
• "Nervous Times" - (1998) (lim. ed. of 250)
• Single & Single - (1999)
• The Constant Gardener - (2001)
• Absolute Friends - (2003)