![]() ![]() Le Carre has won and many of his novels nominated for various awards. He left the service in 1964 to dedicate his time to writing novels. He wrote A Murder of Quality (1962), and later in 1963, he wrote The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. John Le Carre began writing his first novel Call for the Dead (1961) while being an active MI5 officer he was inspired by Lord Clanmorris who wrote crime novel under the pen name George Smiley. He conducted interrogations, ran agents, effected break-ins and tapped telephone lines. ![]() He then lectured Germany and French at Eton College for two consecutive years before becoming an MI5 officer in 1958. When his father was declared Bankrupt, Le Carre started teaching at boys preparatory school but later returned to Oxford where he graduated with a first class Honors in Bachelor of Arts degree. He returned to England in 1952, where he furthered his studies at Lincoln College, Oxford where he also worked undercover agent for the British Security Service, gathering information about possible Soviet Agents. He was recruited in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army in stationed in Austria in 1950, serving as a German language questioner for the people who crossed the Iron Curtain. From 1948 to 1949, he attended the University of Bern in Switzerland where he studied foreign languages. However, he withdrew from the school due to harsh English public school regime. Andrew School, near Pangbourne in Berkshire. ![]() John Le Carre began formal education at St. ![]()
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