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The definitive biography of the internationally adored author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and A Perfect Spy - arguably one of the most important and influential writers of the post-World War II period - by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning biographer Adam Sisman.In this definitive biography - blessed by John le Carr himself - Adam Sisman reveals the man behind the bestselling persona. In John le Carr, Sisman shines a spotlight on David Cornwell, an expert at hiding in plain sight - "born to lying," he wrote in 2002, "bred to it, trained to it by an industry that lies for a living, practiced in it as a novelist."Of course, the pseudonym "John le Carr" has helped to keep the public at a distance.
About the Author
Adam Sisman is a writer specialising in biography, living in Bristol, England. His second book, Boswell's Presumptuous Task, won a National Books Critics Circle award. "Mr. Sisman has an ideal biographical style: inquisitive and open, serious yet not severe," Dwight Garner wrote of Sisman's life of Hugh Trevor-Roper in the New York Times: "I'd read him on anyone."
