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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1929
- Died
- 2026
- Works
- 334
Top works
- Catch a Falling Spy / More Tales of the Black Widowers / Never Pick Up Hitch-Hikers!
- The Verdict of Us All
- מלונדון באהבה
- Battle of Britain
- SS-GB
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Film & TV
Writing · London, England, UK
Len Deighton was a thriller writer best known for his 1962 novel The Ipcress File.
Known for
- MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema — Self - Writer (archive footage)2023
- The Case of Sherlock Holmes — Self1987
- Wogan — Self1982
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 128
- Total plays
- 1,652
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 1997 · cited 1,763x
- Distance software: design and analysis of distance sampling surveys for estimating population size
· 2010 · cited 1,617x
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Quotes
- “The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, "Where did you get the watch?"”
- “Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.”
- “Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.”
- “The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.”
- “"...But love is like the measles; the later in life it affects you, the more severe the consequences""Is there anything you can take for it?""Only wedding vows"”
- “"When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war."”
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Key facts
- Born
- Leonard Cyril Deighton , ( 1929-02-18 ) 18 February 1929, Marylebone , London, England
- Died
- 15 March 2026 (2026-03-15) (aged 97), Guernsey , Channel Islands
- Occupation
- Writer illustrator
- Alma mater
- Royal College of Art
- Spouse
- Shirley Thompson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1960 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1976 ) Ysabele de Ranitz ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 )
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Wikidata facts
- Number of children
- 2
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1929-02-18
- birth name
- Leonard Cyril Deighton
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
- name in native language
- Len Deighton
- Commons category
- Len Deighton
- date of death
- 2026-03-15
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Leonard Cyril Deighton (/ˈdeɪtən/ DAY-tən; 18 February 1929 – 15 March 2026) was a British author. His publications included cookery books and works on history, but he was best known for his spy novels.
After completing his national service in the Royal Air Force, Deighton attended the Saint Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London; he graduated from the latter in 1955. He had several jobs before becoming a book and magazine illustrator and designed the cover for the first UK edition of Jack Kerouac's 1957 work On the Road. He also worked for a period in an advertising agency. During an extended holiday in France he wrote his first novel, The IPCRESS File, which was published in 1962 and was a critical and commercial success. He wrote several spy novels featuring the same central character, an unnamed, cynical and tough working-class intelligence officer. Between 1962 and 1966 Deighton was the food correspondent for The Observer and drew cookstrips—black-and-white graphic recipes with a limited number of words. A selection of these was collected and published in 1965 as Len Deighton's Action Cook Book, the first of five cookery books he wrote. Other topics of non-fiction include military history.