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John le Carré, bestselling author of Cold War thrillers, passes away at 89 Writer Graham Greene called John le Carré's “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,” featuring the plump, ill-dressed George Smiley, the greatest spy story he had ever read. New York Times December 14, 2020 / 07:31 AM IST John le Carré in London on October 6, 2009 (Image by David Azia © 2020 The New York Times) John le Carré, whose exquisitely nuanced, intricately plotted Cold War thrillers elevated the spy novel to high art by presenting both Western and Soviet spie...

John le Carré, outstanding novelist whose work transcended the spy genre – obituary He transformed espionage fiction in the masterworks The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 14 December 2020 • 9:11am John le Carré, who has died aged 89, was one of the most successful post-war English novelists, and perhaps the finest thriller writer of the 20th century. Le Carré, the pen name adopted by David Cornwell, used his own experience of intelligence work to extend the range of a genre whose heroes, epitomised by James Bond, were principally still romantic figures enga...

John le Carré, who lifted the spy novel to literature, dies at 89 Matt Schudel John le Carré, a British author who drew on the enigma of his incorrigibly criminal father and his own experiences as a Cold War-era spy to write powerful novels about a bleak, morally compromised world in which international intrigue and personal betrayal went hand in hand, died Dec. 12 at a hospital in Cornwall, England. He was 89. The cause was pneumonia, his U.S. publisher, Viking Penguin, said in a statement. In a literary career spanning six decades, Mr. le Carré published more than...