Charles McCarry

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Charles McCarry (born June 14, 1930 in Pittsfield , Massachusetts , † February 26, 2019 in Fairfax County , Virginia ) was an American author .

Life

McCarry grew up in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. He served in the US Army and was a correspondent for The Stars and Stripes . In the 1950s he was a speechwriter for President Dwight D. Eisenhower . He then worked for the CIA and worked for them worldwide. In 1967 he left the CIA and started writing. In 1971 he published his first book, The Miernik Dossier . The main character of the work was the spy Paul Christopher . Over the years, McCarry wrote several sequels. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. His novel The Better Angels was filmed in 1982 under the title Wrong Is Right (German: Flammen am Horizont ).

He was also Editor-at-Large at National Geographic . McCarry was married and had children. Among them is Nathan McCarry .

Publications

The Paul Christopher series

  • 1971: The Miernik Dossier (German: The Miernik Dossier . Ullstein Verlag, 1986)
  • 1974: The Tears of Autumn (German: Tränen des Herbst . Ullstein Verlag, 1986)
  • 1977: The Secret Lovers (German: Codewort Liebe . Ullstein Verlag, 1987)
  • 1983: The Last Supper
  • 1991: Second Sight
  • 2004: The Old Boys
  • 2007: Christopher's Ghosts

Individual works

  • 1979: The Better Angels (German: The better angels . Ullstein Verlag, 1986)
  • 1979: Double Eagle
  • 1988: The Bride of the Wilderness (German: Das ferne Glück . Blanvalet, 1990)
  • 1995: Shelley's Heart
  • 1998: Lucky Bastard
  • 2011: Ark
  • 2013: The Shanghai Factor

Non-fiction

  • 1973: Citizen Nader
  • 1980: Great Southwest
  • 1989: Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel (with Isabel Allende , Marge Piercy , Robert Stone and Gore Vidal )
  • 1992: Inner Circles: How America Changed the World: a Memoir (with Alexander Haig )
  • 1997: From the Field: A Collection of Writings from National Geographic

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matt Schudel: Charles McCarry, CIA officer who became a preeminent spy novelist, dies at 88. In: The Washington Post , February 28, 2019 (English). Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  2. ^ Nathan McCarry, Founder, President & CEO at Pluribus International. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME McCarry, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsfield , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH 26th February 2019
Place of death Fairfax County , Virginia