David John Moore Cornwell, or familiar to fans and readers by the pen name John le Carré, was born on the 19 th of October, in the year of 1931, in Poole, Dorset, England. John was a British writer whose works are most often in the espionage subgenre. In the period of the 1950s to the 1960s, John was employed for the MI5 and MI5 services, too.

