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Robert Littell (born January 8, 1935) is an American novelist and former journalist who resides in France. He specialises in spy novels that often concern the CIA and the Soviet Union. Robert Littell was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 8, 1935, to a Jewish family, of Russian Jewish origin.
Robert Littell has 47 books on Goodreads with 34596 ratings. Robert Littell’s most popular book is The Company.
Publication Order of Standalone Novels. Publication Order of Picture Books. Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books. Robert Littell, American novelist and journalist, was born on the 8th January 1935 in Brooklyn, New York. In 1956 Littell graduated from the Alfred University.
An American author residing in France. He specializes in spy novels that often concern the CIA and the Soviet Union. He became a journalist and worked many years for Newsweek during the Cold War. He's also an amateur mountain climber and is the father of award-winning novelist Jonathan Littell.
Robert Littell was born on January 8, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York. He has been ranked amongst John Le Carre and Graham Greene for his masterful spy fiction. A Newsweek journalist in a previous incarnation, Littell has been writing about the Soviet Union and Russians since his first novel, the espionage classic The Defection of A.J.Lewinter.
Littell is a legendary figure among his peers, and many members of the International Thriller Writers acknowledge him as a master of the Cold War thriller. Compared favorably with John le Carré (a.k.a. David Cornwell) and Graham Greene, Littell offers in his fiction a highly literate world as dark as it is complex and full of insight and irony.
Connoisseurs of the spy novel have elevated Robert Littell to the genre’s highest ranks, and Tom Clancy wrote that “if Robert Littell didn’t invent the spy novel, he should have.” He is the author of fifteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Company and Legends, the 2005 L.A. Times Book Award for Best Thriller/Mystery ...
