John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris of Newbrook, was an engineer, former MI5 spy, and an English novelist who published thrillers, detective novels, spy novels, and screen plays. - Wikipedia
Following a spell as a journalist, Bingham was recruited into MI5 by
Maxwell Knight. One of his younger colleagues was David Cornwell, who was
inspired by Bingham’s success as an author of fiction to become a novelist
himself, under the name John le Carré. Le Carré subsequently
acknowledged that Bingham was a key inspiration for his most famous
character, the spy George Smiley. [From the Introduction by Martin Edwards to The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories, 2018]
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- OLID: OL1093318A
- ISNI: 0000000458787651
- VIAF: 32349548
- Wikidata: Q6221909
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