![]() He began writing his first novel during his time at MI5, adopting the pseudonym “John le Carré”-he was born David Cornwell-because agents in the Foreign Office were not allowed to publish under their own names. ![]() He joined MI5 full time in 1958, and in 1960, transferred to MI6, the foreign intelligence service. Le Carré hadn’t entirely given up intelligence work during his years at Oxford he was working undercover for MI5-the domestic intelligence service-spying on left-wing student organizations and looking for Soviet agents. He returned to England in 1952, and began studying at Oxford, graduating in 1956 with a degree in modern languages. Le Carré was stationed in Austria, where he interrogated German speakers who had crossed the Iron Curtain into the West. And le Carré struggled with the harsh discipline of English boarding schools.Īfter completing school, he studied foreign languages at the University of Bern for two years, then joined the Army Intelligence Corps in 1950. His mother left when he was five, and he didn’t meet her again until adulthood his father was a con man who was convicted of insurance fraud and was frequently in debt. ![]() Le Carré is a master of the spy novel, writing stories rooted in his own years as a British intelligence agent. ![]() On October 19, 1931, John le Carré was born. ![]()
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