John le Carre, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89

[GoneOffShore]

A loss to the world of literature and the world.
One of my favorite authors.

“I have been neither a model husband nor a model father, and am not interested in appearing that way.”

The consistent love of his life was writing, “scribbling away like a man in hiding at a poky desk”.

“Out of the secret world I once knew I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit,” he wrote. “First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I’m sitting now.”

Thriller writer most famous for stories of complex cold war intrigue began his career as a real-life spy in postwar Europe

Just in the via the Guardian - I'm posting in GD not LBN.

[Straw Man]

1. Umm ...

... John le Carré. Skip the accent if you want, but get the e in there.

Yes, he was an iconic writer of the Cold War world, the world I grew up in.

[GoneOffShore]

3. The headline was copied directly from The Grauniad website.

[Straw Man]

8. I see what you mean.

I just tried it. Oh well ...

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. "le Carr" (approximately pronounced "le car-ay")

[GoneOffShore]

4. The headline was copied directly from The Grauniad website.

As it used to be spelled by Private Eye, because there were so many typos.

[GoneOffShore]

5. And for some reason accents won't go into subject lines. I just tried.

And yes, I know how is name is pronounced.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. I've finally found a workaround for this - see 'John le Carré'

What you do is put the code for the lower case e acute in, immediately after the 'r', thus:
Carr& #xE9;
or
Carr& #233;
without the space between the & and # . If you use 'preview', or edit, it gets converted to the 'true' e acute, so you have to change that again.

A list of the various codes: https://www.ascii-code.com/

[GoneOffShore]

7. Thanks for the ascii code - I've been using the option e key combo on my Mac

to get accents - It didn't work on the subject which i thought was strange.

But then Google and You Tube are down today, so strange stuff is happening.