John le Carre, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89 [View all]

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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.