JOHN LE CARRE

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service.

The fall book season will be packed with new works by such high-profile authors as Jonathan Franzen, Sally Rooney and Colson Whitehead.

Jason Matthews, an award-winning spy novelist who drew upon his long career in espionage and his admiration for John le Carre among others in crafting his popular “Red Sparrow” thrillers, has died.

LONDON – John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died. “These were very early experiences, actually, of clandestine survival,” le Carre said in 1996. “So I wrote a book in great heat which said ‘a plague on both your houses,’” le Carre told the BBC in 2000. Le Carre said in 1990 that the fall of the Berlin Wall had come as a relief. It’s simply unbelievable.”In 1954, le Carre married Alison Sharp, with whom he had three sons before they divorced in 1971.