Full name: John le Carre: The Biography

Author: Adam Sisman Year: 2015 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780062106278 9781511335782 0062106279 1511335785

John le Carre is still at the top, more than half a century after The Spy Who Came in from the Cold became a worldwide bestseller. From his bleak childhood - the departure of his mother when he was five was followed by 'sixteen hugless years' in the dubious care of his father, a serial-seducer and con-man - through recruitment by both MI5 and MI6, to his emergence as the master of the espionage novel, le Carre has repeatedly quarried his life for his fiction. Millions of readers are hungry to know the truth about him. Written with exclusive access to le Carre himself, to his private archive and to many of the people closest to him, this is a major biography of one of the most important novelists alive today. Similar books: Invisible Writer by Greg Johnson Mary Renault by David Sweetman Uncle Mame by Eric Myers Flannery by Brad Gooch May Sarton by Margot Peters Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster In Search of J.D. Salinger by Ian Hamilton Penelope Fitzgerald by Hermione Lee Albert Camus by Herbert R. Lottman Truman Capote by George Plimpton Saint-Exupery by Stacy Schiff Tove Jansson by Tuula Karjalainen Paul Newman by Shawn Levy Louisa May Alcott by Martha Saxton Alice James by Jean Strouse The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Mobituaries by Mo Rocca Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy