Editing John le Carré (section)

==Personal life==
In 1954, Cornwell married Alison Ann Veronica Sharp. They had three sons: Simon, Stephen and Timothy;<ref name=Guardian_Homberger>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/14/john-le-carre-obituary|title=John le Carré obituary|last1=Homberger|first1=Eric|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=14 December 2020|access-date=14 December 2020|archive-date=14 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214022605/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/14/john-le-carre-obituary|url-status=live }}</ref> they divorced in 1971.<ref name="debretts1">{{Cite book|editor-last=Sefton|editor-first=Daniel|title=Debrett's People of Today|year=2007|publisher=[[Debrett's]]|isbn=978-1-870520-95-9|oclc=764415351|page=[[iarchive:debrettspeopleof0000seft/page/973/mode/1up|973]]|url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeopleof0000seft|url-access=registration}}</ref> In 1972, Cornwell married Valerie Jane Eustace, a book editor with [[Hodder & Stoughton]]<ref name="telegraph1">{{cite news |title=Le Carré pays tribute to his first love |first=Tim |last=Walker |editor-first=Richard |editor-last=Eden |date=5 June 2009 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5446015/John-le-Carre-pays-tribute-to-his-first-love.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5446015/John-le-Carre-pays-tribute-to-his-first-love.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live }}{{cbignore}}</ref> who collaborated with him behind the scenes.<ref name=Nick2021>{{cite news |vauthors=Cornwell N |author-link=Nick Harkaway |title=My father was famous as John le Carré. My mother was his crucial, covert collaborator |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/13/my-father-was-famous-as-john-le-carre-my-mother-was-his-crucial-covert-collaborator |work=The Guardian |date=13 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313131436/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/13/my-father-was-famous-as-john-le-carre-my-mother-was-his-crucial-covert-collaborator |archive-date=13 March 2021 |language=en |url-status=live| quote=...[[Richard Ovenden]], who examined the papers [le Carré] loaned to the Bodleian Library in Oxford... observed a "deep process of collaboration". His analysis is a perfect match for my recollection: "A rhythm of working together that was incredibly efficient … a kind of cadence from manuscript, to typescript, to annotated and amended typescripts … with scissors and staplers being brought to bear … getting closer and closer to the final published version."}}</ref> They had a son, Nicholas, who writes as [[Nick Harkaway]].<ref name="independent1">{{cite news |title=Written in his stars: son of Le Carré gets £300,000 for first novel |first=Ian |last=Herbert |date=6 June 2007 |work=[[The Independent]] |id={{ProQuest|311318983}} }}</ref> Le Carré lived in [[St Buryan]], Cornwall, for more than 40&nbsp;years; he owned a mile of cliff near [[Land's End]].<ref name="guardian1">{{Cite news|last=Gibbs|first=Geoffrey|date=24 July 1999|title=Spy writer fights for clifftop paradise|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jul/24/geoffreygibbs|access-date=16 October 2022}}</ref> The house, Tregiffian Cottage, was put up for sale in 2023 for £3 million.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Vergnault |first1=Olivier |title=House of world-famous spy novelist John le Carré is up for sale |url=https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/house-world-famous-spy-novelist-8745316 |website=Cornwall Live |date=16 September 2023 |access-date=22 September 2023}}</ref> Le Carré also owned a house in [[Gainsborough Gardens]] in Hampstead in north London.<ref name="Times21">{{cite news |author=[[Hunter Davies]] |date=15 January 2021 |title=John Le Carré was my friend, or so I thought |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/john-le-carre-was-my-friend-or-so-i-thought-kf7jnr6xh |url-access=subscription |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref><ref name=CNJ21>{{cite news |url=http://camdennewjournal.com/article/smileys-back-with-a-heady-cocktail |title=Smiley's back with a heady cocktail |author=Gerald Isaaman |date=29 September 2017 |work=[[Camden New Journal]] |access-date=21 June 2021}}</ref>

Le Carré was so disillusioned by the 2016 [[Brexit]] vote to leave the [[European Union]] that he secured Irish citizenship. In a [[BBC]] documentary broadcast in 2021, le Carré's son Nicholas revealed that his father's disillusionment with modern Britain, and Brexit in particular, had driven him to embrace his Irish heritage and become an Irish citizen. At the time of his death, le Carré's friend, the novelist [[John Banville]], confirmed that the writer had researched his family roots in Inchinattin, near [[Rosscarbery]], County Cork, and that he had applied for an Irish passport, to which he was entitled having completed the process of becoming an Irish citizen and having Irish ancestry through his maternal grandmother, Olive Wolfe.<ref name=otoole>{{cite news |last1=O'Toole |first1=Fintan |title=John le Carré 'died an Irishman' after gaining citizenship, son says |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/john-le-carr%C3%A9-died-an-irishman-after-gaining-citizenship-son-says-1.4525265 |access-date=1 April 2021 |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=1 April 2021}}</ref><ref name=rte>{{cite news |title=John Le Carré got Irish citizenship following Brexit vote |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0401/1207388-john-le-carre/ |access-date=1 April 2021 |publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann |date=1 April 2021}}</ref><ref name=sands>{{cite news |last1=Sands |first1=Philippe |title=Why my friend John le Carré, chronicler of the English, died an Irish citizen |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/why-my-friend-john-le-carre-chronicler-of-the-english-died-an-irish-citizen-0t03wv3s7 |access-date=1 April 2021 |work=[[The Times]] |date=1 April 2021}}</ref> His neighbour and friend [[Philippe Sands]] recalled: 
{{Blockquote|text=He became an Irishman through his maternal grandmother. And it was very, very moving, I have to say, to arrive at the place of the memorial to find an Irish flag and only an Irish flag. He had really in the last years, grown very disillusioned with what had happened to Britain and the United Kingdom.<ref name="Sands">{{Cite web |last=Bremner |first=Rory |title=Hiding in Plain Site |url=https://spyscape.com/podcast/hiding-in-plain-sight?_gl=1*14tid9d*_ga*MTA0NDQ0NzE2OS4xNjY2NzcxNTIw*_ga_FTJEV3N42V*MTY2Njc3MTUyMC4xLjEuMTY2Njc3MTU5Ny41NC4wLjA.&_ga=2.23691642.1965969961.1666771523-1044447169.1666771520|access-date=26 October 2022 |website=The Spying Game}}</ref>}}

Le Carré died at [[Royal Cornwall Hospital]], [[Truro]], on 12 December 2020, aged 89.<ref name="guardianobit">{{cite news |last1=Lea |first1=Richard |last2=Cain |first2=Sian |date=13 December 2020 |title=John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89 |language=en |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/13/john-le-carre-author-of-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-dies-aged-89 |url-status=live |access-date=13 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213222501/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/13/john-le-carre-author-of-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-dies-aged-89 |archive-date=13 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=13 December 2020 |title=John le Carré: Cold War novelist dies aged 89 |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55297558 |url-status=live |access-date=13 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213224356/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55297558 |archive-date=13 December 2020}}</ref> An inquest completed in June 2021 concluded that le Carré died after sustaining a fall at his home.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/world-famous-author-john-le-5531470 |title = World famous author John le Carré died after falling at his home in Cornwall |work = [[Cornwall Live]] |date = 15 June 2021 |access-date = 15 June 2021}}</ref> His wife Valerie died on 27 February 2021, two months after her husband, at age 82.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Saunders E.|author2=Becquart, C.|title=John le Carré's wife Valerie Jane has died |url=https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/john-le-carrs-widow-valerie-5081842|work=[[Cornwall Live]]|date=7 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307094721/https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/john-le-carrs-widow-valerie-5081842 |archive-date=7 March 2021 |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2023, biographer [[Adam Sisman]] in ''The Secret Life of John le Carré'' identified 11 women with whom le Carré had affairs during his second marriage.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fesperman |first=Dan |date=23 October 2023 |title=How John le Carré's serial adultery shaped his spy novels |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/10/23/secret-life-john-le-carre-adam-sisman-review/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 October 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref>

Le Carré's son Timothy died on 31 May 2022 at the age of 59, shortly after he finished editing ''A Private Spy'', a collection of his father's letters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2022/news/son-of-famous-novelist-who-became-arts-journalist-dies-aged-59/|title=Son of famous novelist who became arts journalist dies aged 59|author=Paul Linford|date=9 June 2022|access-date=31 October 2022|website=holdthefrontpage.co.uk}}</ref>