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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...