John le Carré (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
Other Literary Forms
John le Carré’s reputation rests exclusively on his novels. He has published a handful of articles and reviews and two short stories but no book-length works in other forms.
Achievements
Espionage fiction, the spy thriller, has a large, worldwide audience; at the end of the twentieth century one out of every four contemporary works of fiction published in the United States belonged to this genre. Le Carré is preeminent among writers of espionage fiction. John...
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