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10 ‘The spy who liked me: On the set with Richard Burton and Martin Ritt’, New Yorker, 15 April 2013.
11 Tom Carver, ‘Philby in Beirut’, London Review of Books, 11 October 2012.
12 Julian Maclaren-Ross, ‘Cloak without Dagger’, Times Literary Supplement, 8 February 1963.
13 Victor Gollancz to DC, 17 February 1964.
14 Horace Hale Crosse to DC, 6 September 1963.
15 ‘Son of the Author’s Father’ (unpublished).
16 DC to Vivian Green, 14 November 1963.
17 Horace Hale Crosse to DC, 11 October 1963.
18 DC to AC, 23 November 1963.
19 Victor Gollancz to Peter Watt, 20 November 1963.
20 Graham Watson, Book Society (André Deutsch, 1980), pp. 104–5.
21 The Looking-Glass War (Lamplighter edition, 1991), pp. 18 and 155.
22 James MacGibbon to DC, 10 February 1964.
23 Peter Watt to James MacGibbon, 15 March 1964; MacGibbon to Watt, 10 and 16 March 1964, A. P. Watt Archive.
24 Hamish MacGibbon, ‘Diary’, London Review of Books, 16 June 2011.
25 Graham Greene to Victor Gollancz, 26 September 1963; Gollancz to Greene, 30 September 1963, Gollancz Archive.
26 ‘The author who came in from obscurity’, Sunday Times, 12 January 1964.
27 Tom Bower, The Perfect English Spy: Sir Dick White and the Secret War 1935–90 (Heinemann, 1995), p. 270.
28 Peter Watt to Victor Gollancz, 20 January 1964, and Watt to DC, 21 January 1964, A. P. Watt Archive.
29 Horace Hale Crosse to DC, 13 February 1964.
30 Doemstag, ‘Behind the Lines: A Literary Casebook: How the home office got The Spy home’.
31 Anthony Boucher, ‘Temptations of a Man Isolated in Deceit’, New York Times, 12 January 1964.
32 Doemstag, ‘Behind the Lines: A Literary Casebook: How the home office got The Spy home’.
33 ‘Wrong Man on Crete’, Holiday, December 1965.
34 Ibid.
35 ‘Fifty Years Later’, the afterword to the fiftieth-anniversary edition of The Spy who Came in from the Cold (Viking Penguin, 2013).
36 CBS, To Tell the Truth, aired on 27 April 1964.
37 ‘The spy who liked me: On the set with Richard Burton and Martin Ritt’.
38 C. P. Snow to DC, 15 April 1964; DC to Snow, 19 April 1964, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas.
39 Doemstag, ‘Behind the Lines: A Literary Casebook: How the home office got The Spy home’.
13: Naïve and sentimental love
1 James and Susan Kennaway, The Kennaway Papers (Jonathan Cape, 1981), p. 22.
2 James Kennaway to his mother, September 1961, quoted in ibid., pp. 70–2; Trevor Royle, James and Jim: A Biography of James Kennaway (Mainstream, 1983), p. 126.
3 Royle, James and Jim, pp. 51–2, 153–4, 188–9; Kennaway and Kennaway, The Kennaway Papers, p. 9.
4 Royle, James and Jim, pp. 51–2, 153–4, 188–9; Kennaway and Kennaway, The Kennaway Papers, p. 151.
5 ‘Violent Image’ (interview with Alan Watson), Sunday Times, 30 March 1969.
6 DC to James Kennaway, undated [June?] 1964.
7 ‘Early success’, essay first published in American Cavalcade (1937).
8 DC to Victor Gollancz, 30 May 1964; Peter Watt to Victor Gollancz, 11 June 1964 and to Livia Gollancz, 17 June 1964.
9 Foreword to the Lamplighter edition of The Looking-Glass War (1991).
10 Victor Gollancz to DC, 22 July 1964; Peter Watt to Victor Gollancz (two letters), 17 August 1964; DC to Victor Gollancz, 28 August 1964, Gollancz Archive.
11 Undated letters [late August 1964] from James Kennaway to Susan Kennaway, Kennaway papers, National Library of Scotland 12760: 58.
12 Undated letter from DC to Charles Pick, late August/early September 1964.
13 Kennaway papers, National Library of Scotland 12760: 44.
14 DC to James Kennaway, 28 August 1964.
15 Kennaway and Kennaway, The Kennaway Papers, pp. 17 and 19–20.
16 Horace Hale Crosse to DC, 22 May, 27 July and 3 September 1964.
17 Undated letter from DC to James Kennaway, probably September 1964.
18 The account that follows is based largely on the one given by Susan Kennaway in The Kennaway Papers. David left an account of the same events, which differs in several details.
19 Kennaway and Kennaway, The Kennaway Papers, p. 31.
20 Ibid., pp. 30–2.
21 DC to James Kennaway, 22 November 1964.
22 DC to Susan Kennaway, undated [March 1965?].
23 Ibid.
24 This passage draws extensively on le Carré’s ‘The spy who liked me: On the set with Richard Burton and Martin Ritt’.
25 Kennaway and Kennaway, The Kennaway Papers, pp. 53–4.
26 Frank Delaney, introduction to the reissued edition of Kennaway’s The Bells of Shoreditch (Mainstream, 1981), p. x; Frederic Raphael, introduction to the reissued edition of Kennaway’s The Cost of Living like This (Mainstream, 1980), p. viii.
27 Kennaway and Kennaway, The Kennaway Papers, p. 100.
28 Ibid., p. 58.
29 James Kennaway to Susan Kennaway, 1 September 1967, in ibid., p. 142.
30 DC to Susan Kennaway, undated but probably March 1965, National Library of Scotland 12760: 64.
31 Several undated letters to Susan Kennaway, probably March–April 1965, National Library of Scotland 12760: 64.
32 Undated letter from AC to DC, undated [early 1965?].
33 Kennaway and Kennaway, The Kennaway Papers, p. 24.
34 James Kennaway to Susan Kennaway, 1 March 1965, National Library of Scotland 12760.
14: Caught in the machine
1 DC to AC, undated [April 1965?].
2 DC to Graham Greene, 4 August 1964. I am indebted to Richard Greene for supplying me with copies of Graham Greene’s letters.
3 DC to AC, 21 April 1965.
4 Carol Smith at A. P. Watt to Shaun MacLoughlin, script editor, The Wednesday Play, 17 July 1969, T 48/368/1, BBC Written Archives Centre, Caversham.
5 Kingsley Amis, ‘Slow Boat to Haiti’, Observer, 30 January 1966.
6 DC to Graham Greene, undated [February 1966?].
7 ‘Le Carré comes in from the cold’ (interview with Anthony Haden-Guest), Town, date unknown [July 1965?].
8 James Kennaway to Susan Kennaway, 1 March 1965 [misdated 1964], in The Kennaway Papers, p. 91.
9 ‘Vienna: In search of a lost spy story’, Weekend Telegraph, June 1966.
10 DC to AC, 21 April 1965.
11 AC to DC, undated [summer 1965].
12 ‘Spy Writer Finds Success is Cold’, New York Times, 5 June 1965.
13 Maurice Richardson, ‘Le Carré tries too hard’, Observer, 20 June 1965.
14 Anthony Curtis, ‘Work Out for a Keen Spy’, Sunday Telegraph, 20 June 1965.
15 I owe this phrase to Toby Manning.
16 ‘Twenty Years After’, Times Literary Supplement, 24 July 1965.
17 Foreword to the Lamplighter edition of The Looking-Glass War (1991).
18 See, for example, Julian Symons, ‘A Spy Goes Out’, Sunday Times, 20 June 1965.
19 Orville Prescott, ‘Books of the Times’, New York Times, 25 and 23 July 1965.
20 Stephen Marcus, ‘Grand Illusions’, New York Review of Books, 5 August 1965.
21 Eric Ambler, ‘John Le Carré escapes the follow-up jinx’, Life, 30 July 1965.
22 Hilde Spiel, ‘Weder Gott noch Marx’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15 March 1966.
23 Foreword to the Lamplighter edition of The Looking-Glass War (1991).
24 John Bingham to Victor Gollancz, 13 August 1965. I am grateful to Michael Jago for supplying me with a copy of this letter.
25 Jago, The Man Who Was George Smiley, p. 193.
26 DC to Horace Hale Crosse, 14 July 1965.
27 John Bingham to Victor Gollancz, 13 August 1965.
28 Ibid.
29 DC to AC, 23 September 196
5 and undated [probably the next day].
30 DC to John Margetson, 29 September 1969.
31 Ronnie Cornwell to Victor Gollancz, 3 April 1965.
32 DC to AC, undated, postmarked 28 October 1965.
33 DC to John and Miranda Margetson, 17 December 1965.
34 DC to Ronnie Cornwell, 28 December 1965, quoted in Fred Hauptfuhrer, ‘The Complex Man who Writes as John Le Carré’, People, 19 August 1974.
35 ‘Playbill’, Playboy, December 1965, p. 5.
36 DC to AC, undated [1966?].
37 Foreword to the Lamplighter edition of A Small Town in Germany (1991).
38 Charles Pick to H. G. Vevers (Hon. Sec., Savile Club), 5 May 1966, ‘Le Carré author file’, Random House Archive.
39 These and subsequent quotations in this passage are taken from an interview David Cornwell gave to Alan Clark’s biographer, Ion Trewin.
40 DC to Charles Pick, 21 August 1967.
41 ‘The Maharajah’s Elephant’ [unpublished].
15: Rich but restless
1 DC to Charles Pick, 1 January 1968.
2 ‘The Enemy Within’, Sunday Times, 18 February 1968.
3 Frank Keating, ‘André Deutsch’, Guardian, 12 April 2000.
4 Norman Sherry, The Life of Graham Greene, vol. 3: 1955–1991 (Jonathan Cape, 2004), pp. 751–2.
5 ‘The Writers Engage in Battle,’ The Times, 4 September 1967.
6 ‘Our Man in Moscow’, Observer, 18 February 1968.
7 ‘Britain: The Old School Spy’, Time, 1 March 1968.
8 ‘The Night of the March’, Weekend Telegraph, 5 July 1968.
9 Charles Pick to Arthur Cohen, Reader’s Digest, 4 January 1967.
10 DC to Charles Pick, 19 May and 26 July 1967 and 1 January 1968.
11 DC to Horace Hale Crosse, 13 February and 1 March 1967.
12 DC to AC, 28 May 1968.
13 DC to AC, 13 June 1968.
14 DC to AC, undated [summer 1968].
15 DC to John Margetson, 11 July 1968.
16 ‘Behind an Iron Curtain’ (interview with Zoë Heller) Independent on Sunday 1 August 1993.
17 George Greenfield, A Smattering of Monsters: A Kind of Memoir (Little, Brown, 1995), p. 276.
18 DC to R. S. Thompson, 8 October 1968.
19 Roland Gant to Malcolm Muggeridge, 21 October 1968.
20 Christa Rotzoll, ‘Hunnen heraus!’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 26 November 1968.
21 DC to Vivian Green, 24 August 1968.
22 Telegram from DC to Charles Pick, 26 April 1968. I am indebted to Martin Pick for access to his father’s papers.
23 ‘Labyrinthine Ways’, Times Literary Supplement, 31 October 1968.
24 H. R. F. Keating, ‘From Bonn, a literary bundle’, The Times, 2 November 1968.
25 Neal Ascherson, ‘Looking Forward in Anger’, Observer, 27 October 1968.
26 C. P. Snow, introducing A Small Town in Germany to members of the Book of the Month Club, 9 July 1968.
27 T. G. Rosenthal, ‘Thrillers into Novels’, New Statesman, 8 November 1968.
28 Richard Boston, ‘What Became of Harting?’, New York Times Book Review, 27 October 1968.
29 DC to Charles Pick, 2 November 1968.
30 ‘Poole Tablers’ 40th Milestone’, Poole and East Dorset Herald, 6 March 1969; Bryan E. Keeping to Ed Perkins (deputy editor, Daily Echo), 27 April 1999.
31 DC to John Margetson, 15 June 1969.
32 Jason Lewis and Kim Willsher, ‘The KGB’s Spy at the Palace’, Mail on Sunday, 20 February 2000.
33 ‘Strange Magic I Could Never Quite Deny’, Weekend Telegraph, 9 November 1996.
34 ‘Karl’, a tribute given at the memorial service for Karl Weschke in Newlyn Art Gallery, 15 March 2005.
35 From David’s notes for the eulogy cited in ibid.
36 DC to AC, 4 February 1969.
37 Sydney Pollack to DC, dated ‘13 April’ [1993?].
38 DC to AC, undated but postmarked 13 June 1968.
39 DC to Susan Kennaway, 18 February 1969.
40 DC to Susan Kennaway, undated [February/March 1969?].
41 DC to Susan Kennaway, dated ‘8 May’ [1969].
42 DC to Susan Kennaway, undated [June 1969?].
43 DC to AC, 24 October and 14 November 1969; AC to DC, undated [October/November 1969].
44 DC to AC, 18 January and 27 May 1970; AC to DC, undated [1970].
45 DC to Vivian Green, 5 June 1970.
46 DC to John Margetson, 15 June 1969.
47 DC to Charles Pick, undated [June 1970].
48 Foreword to the Lamplighter edition of The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (2000).
49 Ibid.
50 The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (Penguin, 2011), pp. 58–9.
51 DC to James Kennaway, undated [1965].
52 DC to Horace Hale Crosse, 4 and 6 March 1968.
53 This paragraph draws on Sabine Ibach’s address at the memorial gathering for Rainer Heumann on 26 March 1996.
54 DC to Andreas Heumann, 7 March 1996.
55 ‘Obituary’, Publishing News, 5 May 2000.
56 Greenfield, A Smattering of Monsters, pp. 276–8.
57 DC to Charles Pick, 14 April 1970.
58 DC to Charles Pick, undated [June 1970].
59 Charles Pick to DC, 24 June 1970, Random House Archive.
60 DC to Charles Pick, 7 November 1970.
61 Original draft of a passage from John St John’s William Heinemann: A Century of Publishing, 1890–1990 (William Heinemann, 1990), p. 498. In the printed version the word ‘embittered’ is replaced by ‘let down’.
62 Greenfield, A Smattering of Monsters, pp. 201–2.
63 ‘Whitefriar’, Bookseller, 13 March 1971.
64 DC to Charles Pick, 15 March 1971.
65 Susan Kennaway to DC, 16 May, year not given [1971?].
66 DC to Susan Kennaway, undated [May 1971?].
67 Foreword to the Lamplighter edition of The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (2000).
68 ‘Wishful Thinking’, Times Literary Supplement, 24 September 1971.
69 D. Jones, ‘The New Le Carré’, Listener, 23 September 1971.
70 Claire Tomalin, ‘Liberated Englishman’, Observer, 19 September 1971.
71 Auberon Waugh, ‘Piers Paul Read and Other Novelists’, Spectator, 25 September 1971.
72 H. R. F. Keating, ‘The Prime Gift of Story-Telling’, The Times, 30 September 1971.
73 Graham Lord, ‘Now John Le Carré Turns his Back on Spies’, Sunday Express, 19 September 1971.
74 Frederic Raphael, ‘Looking-Glass Hero’, Sunday Times, 26 September 1971.
75 Jochen Schmidt, ‘Der wachsame Träumer’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 29 July 1972.
76 Georg Hensel, ‘In Ermangelung eines Spions’, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 6 May 1972.
77 Geoffrey Wolff, ‘All Naked into the World of Art’, New York Times Book Review, 9 January 1972.
78 Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, ‘Falling in love with love …’, ‘Books of The Times’, New York Times, 9 January 1972.
79 ‘Le Carré’s Circus’ (interview with Paul Vaughan), Listener, 13 September 1979.
80 DC to Buzz and Janet Berger, 8 January 1972.
81 ‘Well Played, Wodehouse’, Sunday Times, 10 October 1971.
82 DC to J. W. Lambert, 28 September 1971, Bodleian Library Ms Eng c. 2296.
16: Keeping the bitterness at bay
1 DC to Nicholas Shakespeare, 19 April 1991. Shakespeare had then just given up work as a literary journalist to concentrate on writing full-time.
2 DC to Dmitri Khrebtukov (in a letter to Andrew Ross), 30 October 1996.
3 ‘The Things a Spy Can Do’ (interview with Melvyn Bragg), Listener, 22 January 1976.
4 ‘Who Watches the Watchmen?’, Waterstone’s Books Quarterly, Issue 30 (2008).
5 ‘John le Carré: The Art of Fiction No. 149’ (interview with George Plimpton), Paris Review, 143 (Summer 1997).
6 Robert Gottlieb, �
�The Art of Editing’ (interview with Larissa MacFarquhar), Paris Review, 132 (Fall 1994).
7 JC to Tim Hely Hutchinson, 27 October 1993.
8 Introduction to the Lamplighter edition of Smiley’s People (2000).
9 Eric Homberger, John le Carré (Methuen, 1986), p. 88.
10 Foreword to the Lamplighter edition of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1991).
11 DC to Vivian Green, 9 December 1973.
12 ‘Le Carré’s Circus’ (interview with Paul Vaughan), Listener, 13 September 1979.
13 ‘John le Carré: The Art of Fiction No. 149’ (interview with George Plimpton).
14 Foreword to the Lamplighter edition of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1991).
15 Paula Span, ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier … Tourist’, Washington Post Magazine, 11 October 1982.
16 Robert Burchfield to John le Carré, 18 March 1981.
17 Michael Straight, After Long Silence (Collins, 1983), p. 62.
18 Frank Steele to DC, 27 June 1989; ‘Mole-catchers’, letter to the Sunday Times, 2 July 1989.
19 Phillip Knightley, Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B. Masterspy (André Deutsch, 1988), pp. 136–9.
20 DC to John?, 27 July 1973, Hodder & Stoughton Archive; DC to Vivian Green, 9 December 1973.
21 DC to Vivian Green, 28 March 1974.
22 Robert Gottlieb, ‘The Art of Editing’.
23 ‘The Constant Muse’, New Yorker, 25 December 2000.
24 H. D. S. Greenway, ‘Travels with le Carré’, Newsweek, 10 November 1977. The account that follows is based largely on this source.
25 Richard Hughes, ‘I Spy’, Sun, 11 November 1977.
26 H. D. S. Greenway, ‘A Life at the Empire’s End’, Boston Globe, 6 December 2002.
27 Introduction to the Lamplighter edition of The Little Drummer Girl (1993).
28 H. D. S. Greenway, Foreign Correspondent: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2014), pp. 110–11.
29 Derek Davies, ‘Memories of John le Carré’ (written for the Sunday Correspondent c. 1989 but unpublished).
30 DC to Vivian Green, 28 March 1974.
31 DC to Horace Hale Crosse, 2 October 1975.
32 Yvette Pierpaoli to JC and DC, 8 September 1997.
33 ‘The Constant Muse’.
34 Ibid.
35 Greenway, ‘Travels with le Carré’.
36 Michael Dean, ‘The Writer who Came in from the Cold’, broadcast on BBC 2, published in the Listener, 92 (5 September 1974).