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Classify International Best Selling Author and Former British Intelligence Officer (John le Carré)
He's from Poole, which is a southern coastal town
that's extremely close to where I was born and raised in Dorset.
Born: David John Moore Cornwell (pen name: John le Carré)
19th October 1931 (age 86)
Poole, Dorset, England
Occupation: Novelist
Former intelligence officer
David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931) is best known by the pen name John le Carré (/lə ˈkɑːrˌeɪ/). He is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and '60s, he worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author.
In 2011, he was awarded the Goethe Medal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Carré
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