WRITER

John le Carré

1931 - 2020

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David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré ( lə-KARR-ay), was a British author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John le Carré has received more than 7,002,332 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). John le Carré is the 812th most popular writer (down from 495th in 2019), the 616th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 388th in 2019) and the 71st most popular British Writer.

John le carré is most famous for his spy novels.

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  • 7.0M

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  • 63.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John le Carré ranks 812 out of 7,302. Before him are Jan Potocki, Thomas Hardy, Daniel Keyes, Magtymguly Pyragy, Max Frisch, and Dobrica Ćosić. After him are Basava, Odysseas Elytis, Danilo Kiš, Charles Maurras, Tony Buzan, and Jerome K. Jerome.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, John le Carré ranks 49. Before him are Nawal El Saadawi, David Lee, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Rorty, and Kakuichi Mimura. After him are Larry Hagman, Burton Richter, Jacques Demy, Faten Hamama, Lucia Bosè, and James Earl Jones. Among people deceased in 2020, John le Carré ranks 37. Before him are Christopher Tolkien, Arthur Ashkin, Dmitry Yazov, Jiří Menzel, Oliver E. Williamson, and Michael Lonsdale. After him are Lucia Bosè, Kobe Bryant, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nexhmije Hoxha, Eduard Limonov, and Kenzō Takada.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John le Carré ranks 616 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Hardy (1840), James II of Scotland (1430), Nigel Mansell (1953), Brian Epstein (1934), Robert II of Scotland (1316), and Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784). After him are Bryan Ferry (1945), Eduard Suess (1831), Tony Buzan (1942), Tilda Swinton (1960), Jerome K. Jerome (1859), and Edgar Wallace (1875).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John le Carré ranks 71. Before him are Walter Raleigh (1554), A. J. Cronin (1896), Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809), William McMaster Murdoch (1873), Eleanor Marx (1855), and Thomas Hardy (1840). After him are Tony Buzan (1942), Jerome K. Jerome (1859), Edgar Wallace (1875), John Bunyan (1628), Julian Barnes (1946), and W. H. Auden (1907).

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