{"name": "John Bingham", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris of Newbrook, was an engineer, former MI5 spy, and an English novelist who published thrillers, detective novels, spy novels, and screen plays. - Wikipedia\r\n\r\nFollowing a spell as a journalist, Bingham was recruited into MI5 by\r\nMaxwell Knight. One of his younger colleagues was David Cornwell, who was\r\ninspired by Bingham\u2019s success as an author of fiction to become a novelist\r\nhimself, under the name John le Carr\u00e9. Le Carr\u00e9 subsequently\r\nacknowledged that Bingham was a key inspiration for his most famous\r\ncharacter, the spy George Smiley. [From the Introduction by Martin Edwards to *The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories*, 2018]"}, "personal_name": "John Bingham", "death_date": "6 August 1988", "alternate_names": ["John Michael Ward Bingham", "Michael Ward"], "photos": [7425892], "birth_date": "3 November 1908", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q6221909", "viaf": "32349548", "isni": "0000000458787651", "imdb": "nm0082941", "lc_naf": "n50053687", "opac_sbn": "RAVV231804"}, "key": "/authors/OL1093318A", "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-30T18:24:27.401804"}}