What is John le Carré?
[[File:John le Carré cropped.jpg|thumb|Le Carré in 2008]] '''John le Carré''' (19 October 1931 &ndash; 12 December 2020) was an [[English people|English]] [[novelist]]. He was born in [[Poole]], [[Dorset]]. He [[writer|wrote]] many [[spy]] [[novel]]s. The name is a [[pseudonym]]. His real name was '''David John Moore Cornwell'''. Le Carré graduated from [[Lincoln College, Oxford]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree. Le Carré died from [[pneumonia]] at [[Royal Cornwall Hospital]] in [[Truro]], [[England]] on 12 December 2020, at age 89.<ref name=guardianobit>{{cite news |title=John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/13/john-le-carre-author-of-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-dies-aged-89 |work=the Guardian |date=13 December 2020 |language=en |access-date=13 December 2020 |archive-date=13 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213222501/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/13/john-le-carre-author-of-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-dies-aged-89 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=13 December 2020|title=John le Carré: Cold War novelist dies aged 89|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55297558|access-date=13 December 2020|archive-date=13 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213224356/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55297558|url-status=live}}</ref> ==His works== ===Novels=== * ''[[Call for the Dead]]'' (1961), {{ISBN|0-143-12257-6}} * ''[[A Murder of Quality]]'' (1962), {{ISBN|0-141-19637-8}} * ''[[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]]'' (1963), {{ISBN|0-143-12475-7}} * ''[[The Looking Glass War]]'' (1965), {{ISBN|0-143-12259-2}} * ''[[A Small Town in Germany]]'' (1968), {{ISBN|0-143-12260-6}} * ''[[The Naïve and Sentimental Lover]]'' (1971), {{ISBN|0-143-11975-3}} * ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]'' (1974), {{ISBN|0-143-12093-X}} * ''[[The Honourable Schoolboy]]'' (1977), {{ISBN|0-143-11973-7}} * ''[[Smiley's People]]'' (1979), {{ISBN|0-340-99439