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E. Phillips Oppenheim was a prolific novelist, producing over 100 works of intrigue and spies.
During WW1, Oppenheim worked at the Ministry of Information; when looking for villains, he tended to draw on Prussian anarchists, to such a degree that one reviewer lamented the 'baldness of his propaganda'.
The Great Impersonation is possibly his most well-known, and considered his best. It was also filmed several times.
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Writer, WWII ace pilot & Intelligence officer, Roald Dahl was sent to Washington, as air attaché, where he was introduced to the Canadian spymaster William Stephenson. Dahl supplied intelligence to Churchill on Roosevelt & while in Washington, met C.S.Forester, who encouraged him to become a writer(this led to Dahl's first story 'A Piece of Cake'). Later, Dahl also worked with fellow officer Ian Fleming.
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C S Forester is perhaps best known for his Hornblower novels although he had been writing successfully since the 1920s. Several of his novels were filmed,including The African Queen, The General, and The Good Shepherd (filmed as Greyhound in 2020).
During WWII he moved to the US where he wrote propaganda for the British Ministry of Information. While in Washington he met Roald Dahl & encouraged him to write.
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A less familiar portrait of W.Somerset Maugham from WWI, when the already famous playwright drove ambulances & was recruited by the British secret service. His knowledge of French & German was an added asset, & WWI saw him in Geneva, Switzerland, followed by Samoa, & in 1917, Russia as an undercover agent.
The travel bug never left Maugham, who drew on his observations for his novels, short stories and plays.
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Anthony Munday was a contemporary of Shakespeare; his written work includes historical plays (such as Sir Thomas More), the legend of Robin Hood, & pageant pieces.
Munday went on a Grand Tour in 1578, although this may have been a cover for his spying activities at the English College in Rome.
In 1584 he became Messenger to Her Majestie's Chamber, and gave up acting to focus on his writing.
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Perhaps the 'patron' of all writerly spies, Kit (Christopher) Marlowe lived also the most speculative of lives, as so little concrete evidence has survived.
The theory is that Marlowe was recruited while a student at Cambridge.
His missions were various & even his death over a 'Reckoning' is shrouded in doubts and mystery - was it a jealous quarrel? Or did Marlowe simply 'know too much'?
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Agent Astrea crossed the Channel to Flanders.The task: to find a soldier called William Scott & turn him into a double agent. The year was 1666, & London was caught up in the Great Fire. It took months for Astrea to return to London, in debt.
Agent Astrea was, of course, Aphra Behn, & went on to write plays, poetry & several novels, including Oroonoko, which pleads for the abolition of slavery.
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Julia Mannering wrote plays, novels, & historical biographies. Her real name was Madeline Bingham. She joined MI5 at the start of WWII together with her husband, Lord Clanmorris (novelist John Bingham), who later recruited John Le Carré (see last week's post).
At one point she was based at the SOE HQ in Baker Street where she "kept a drawer of suicide tablets for agents". A prototype Moneypenny perhaps?
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"The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story."
- John le Carré
Recruited to MI5 by Lord Clanmorris (aka espionage novelist John Bingham), John le Carré wrote his first novel in 1961: 'Call for the Dead', introducing his best-known character, George Smiley. Smiley returned in 'Tinker,Tailor, Soldier, Spy' (which also portrays double agent Kim Philby).
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John Bingham, author of 17 thriller, spy and detective novels, also worked for MI5 during WW2 and after. At one time he shared a room with John le Carré, who partly based George Smiley on Bingham.
Bingham's second novel, Five Roundabouts to Heaven (aka The Tender Poisoner) was adapted for film in 2007 (Married Life).
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"Don’t worry.You’ve written before and you will write again."
Ernest Hemingway, like Grahame Greene (https://mastodon.social/@HollandHouseBooks/111340541906552564),set a novel in Cuba (The Old Man of the Sea), although it is not a satire about espionage as ‘Our Man in Havana’ is.
While in Cuba in the early 1940s Hemingway was assigned to set up an intelligence service, ‘the Crook Factory’, which he left in 1942 on another project - patrolling the Caribbean, searching for U-boats.
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A member of Graham Greene's writing circle (see last week's post), Noel Coward also worked with the secret service; during WWII he ran the British propaganda office in Paris, then worked for British Intelligence in the US.
He spent his final days in Jamaica, where his neighbours included Ian Fleming....
On writing:
"I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining."
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Unlike J R R Tolkien (see last week's post) Graham Greene stayed the course, and worked for MI6. He drew on his experience in his parody of intelligence work 'Our Man in Havana'.
His writing circle included T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Ian Fleming, and Noel Coward...
His writing process came first - "A love affair had to begin after lunch"
On writing he said: "So much of a novelist’s writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious"
...and - a propos of J R R Tolkien, who we quoted the other day - did you also know he trained as a secret agent during WWII? As a leading linguist, he was put forward as a potential code-breaker for Bletchley Park. He took the 3 day course & was apparently keen, yet ultimately declined the offer, for reasons unknown - although by then, The Hobbit had been published, so he most likely wanted to concentrate on his writing career.
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