The 2013 book An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris is a fictional account of real life events. Whose life is it based on?
"An Officer and a Spy An Officer and a Spy is a 2013 historical fiction thriller by the English writer and journalist Robert Harris. It tells the true story of French officer Georges Picquart from 1896-1906, as he struggles to expose the truth about the doctored evidence that sent Alfred Dreyfus to Devil's Island. Upon being promoted to run the ""Statistical Section"", the top secret headquarters of French military intelligence, Georges Picquart begins to discover that the evidence used to convict Alfred Dreyfus of espionage, which resulted in his imprisonment for life on Devil's Island, is flimsy at best. As"
"he investigates further, he discovers that the military and the government doctored much of the evidence. Moreover, the spy who actually passed the information Dreyfus was convicted of sending to the Germans is, in fact, still operating. Warned off the investigation by his superiors, Picquart persists, risking his career and his life to free an innocent man from unjust imprisonment and to stop a spy operating within the military who has gone unpunished. The novel won the Walter Scott Prize (2014), and the American Library in Paris Book Award (2014). Robert Harris was inspired to write the novel by his"
"Robert Harris (novelist) Robert Dennis Harris (born 7 March 1957) is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC television reporter. Although he began his career in non-fiction, his fame rests upon his works of historical fiction. Beginning with the best-seller ""Fatherland"", Harris focused on events surrounding the Second World War, followed by works set in ancient Rome. His most recent works centre on contemporary history. Harris was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Union and editor of the student newspaper ""Varsity"". Born in Nottingham, Harris spent his childhood in a small rented"
"he attracted much attention during his life for his irascible, aggressive personality, editorship of famous periodicals, and friendship with the talented and famous, he is remembered mainly for his multiple-volume memoir ""My Life and Loves"", which was banned in countries around the world for its sexual explicitness. Harris was born James Thomas Harris in 1855, in Galway, Ireland, to Welsh parents. His father, Thomas Vernon Harris, was a naval officer from Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales. While living with his older brother he was, for a year or more, a pupil at The Royal School, Armagh. At the age of 12 he"
"Philippa Pullar Philippa Pullar (12 February 1935, in London – 7 September 1997 in London) was a British author and jet set personality best remembered for her exhaustively-researched 1975 biography of the Irish-American author Frank Harris. The biography involved great amounts of traveling and research, not least because Harris had intricately woven fact and fiction in his famous five-volume autobiography, ""My Life and Loves"". Born Philippa King, she was daughter of an army major. She married Robert Pullar in 1958 and they had two sons. The marriage did not last and was dissolved before he died in 1996. In later"
"Ian Charleson in the series. R. H. Bruce Lockhart Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, KCMG (2 September 1887 – 27 February 1970) was a British diplomat (Moscow, Prague), journalist, author, secret agent and footballer. His 1932 book, ""Memoirs of a British Agent"", became an international best-seller, and brought him to the world's attention. It tells of his failed effort to sabotage the Bolshevik revolution in Moscow in 1918; his co-conspirators were double agents working for the Bolsheviks. In the end the ""Lockhart Plot"", was a cunning `sting' deliberately manufactured and controlled by Soviet master spy Felix Dzerzhinsky with the goal"
"murder, auto theft, kidnapping, burglary, and bank robbery. One of the arresting officers, Steve Baker, was the father of one of the murdered boys, but did not realize the victim was his son until later. Harris was convicted and sentenced to death on March 6, 1979. After a series of appeals and stays of execution, he was executed in San Quentin's gas chamber on April 21, 1992. Robert Alton Harris was born at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, the fifth of nine children of Kenneth and Evelyn Harris. Kenneth was a sergeant in the United States Army who was awarded"
"this, even after a number of document experts had found them to be ""genuine"". The story of these, together with that of the three bomb blasts that rocked Salt Lake City, is told with a well-researched narrative which carefully explains the complex episode. Robert Lindsey (journalist) Robert Lindsey (born 1935) is a journalist and author of several true crime books, including ""The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage"" (1980), the story of Christopher John Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee, who were both convicted of selling information to the Soviets. """" (1983) followed, a chronology of"
"Roger Wolcott Hall Roger Wolcott Hall (May 20, 1919 in Baltimore, Maryland – 20 July 2008 in Windsor Hills, DE; congestive heart failure) was an American Army officer and spy in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and the author of a humorous memoir of his experiences in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), entitled ""You’re Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger"" (1957). The book was reportedly used in Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) training and was re-issued by the Naval Institute Press in 2004. He also wrote two novels: ""All My Pretty Ones"" about the world of"
"his social background and a desk role did not suit him as well as his wartime role had. He is the subject of the 2018 biography ""Agent Jack"" by Robert Hutton, and his adventures were the inspiration for the novel ""Our Friends In Berlin"" by Anthony Quinn and for a major character in the novel ""Transcription"" by Kate Atkinson. Roberts was born in Wivelsfield in June 1907, the son of Percival Arthur Garfield Roberts and his wife Maud (née Green). At the time of the 1911 Census the family was living in Penzance, where his father worked for the Western"
"by Robert Alton Harris. Robert Alton Harris Robert Alton Harris (January 15, 1953 - April 21, 1992) was an American car thief, burglar, kidnapper and murderer who was executed at San Quentin State Prison in 1992 for the 1978 murders of two teenage boys in San Diego. His execution was the first in the state of California since 1967. Harris was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and was abused as a child. He had run-ins with police as early as age 10, and was first placed into juvenile detention at age 13 for stealing a car. His mother abandoned"
"the operation. Ruse (book) Ruse is an autobiographical account written by investigative journalist and FBI counterintelligence operative, Robert Eringer. ""Ruse"" covers the author's covert interactions with CIA defector, Edward Lee Howard in the late years of his life. The primary objective is to convince Howard to travel outside of Russia, to a jurisdiction where he could be arrested and extradited. Eringer's cover as a literary agent also allows him to gain the confidence of the 23 year fugitive, Unicorn Killer (Ira Einhorn). Frustrated with extradition negotiations, the FBI approved Eringer's plan to keep tabs on Einhorn in case that he"
"wrote the 1967 book ""Ace of Spies"" – about his father's friend and fellow agent Sidney Reilly – from which the 1983 miniseries ""Reilly, Ace of Spies"" was produced. Lockhart married Frances Mary Beck in 1948. His posthumous diaries reveal that he struggled most of his life with alcoholism. Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, died on 27 February 1970 at the age of 82, leaving property valued at £2054. His address at death was Brookside, Ditchling, Sussex. The 1983 British television series ""Reilly, Ace of Spies"" was based on a book by his son. Bruce Lockhart was portrayed by actor"
"in 1864 while in battle with the 52nd Regiment of Foot at Kensington on 10 February. Henry Curling (novelist) Henry Curling (1803 – 10 February 1864, Kensington) was a novelist and captain in the 52nd Regiment of Foot, a light infantry unit in the British Army. Curling's works include ""The Soldier of Fortune"", 1843; ""Shakespeare, a Romance"", 1848; and ""Recollections of Rifleman Harris"", 1848. Many common foot soldiers during the period 1803–1815 were unable to create an account of events they encountered because of their illiteracy. ""Recollections of Rifleman Harris"" provides an account of Benjamin Randell Harris, a common soldier"
"My Life and Loves My Life and Loves is the autobiography of the Ireland-born, naturalized-American writer and editor Frank Harris (1856–1931). As published privately by Harris between 1922 and 1927, and by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press in 1931, the work consisted of four volumes, illustrated with many drawings and photographs of nude women. The book gives a graphic account of Harris' sexual adventures and relates gossip about the sexual activities of celebrities of his day. The work was banned in both the United States and Britain for a span of 40 years. At one time it was sold in Paris"
"former wife, and he claimed he was twice attacked by thugs. Houghton claimed that the information he gave them were newspaper cuttings and matters already in the public domain. On 22 March 1961, Houghton and Gee were both sentenced to fifteen years in prison. They were released early on 12 May 1970 and they married in 1971. Around this period, Houghton wrote his autobiography ""Operation Portland: The Autobiography of a Spy"", which was published in 1972 by Hart-Davis. Houghton died in obscurity in Poole, Dorset in 1985. Harry Houghton Harry Frederick Houghton (7 June 1905 – May 1985) was a"
"fashion and ""19"" about the O.S.S. He was the son of a United States Navy officer and spent much of his youth in Annapolis, Maryland. He was married to Linda Texter Hall. Roger Wolcott Hall Roger Wolcott Hall (May 20, 1919 in Baltimore, Maryland – 20 July 2008 in Windsor Hills, DE; congestive heart failure) was an American Army officer and spy in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and the author of a humorous memoir of his experiences in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), entitled ""You’re Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger"" (1957). The book"
"Rosie Harris Marion Rose Harris (known professionally as Rosie Harris and born Marion Rose Young on 12 July 1925) is a British author of romantic fiction. Her work is mainly set in Liverpool and Cardiff in the 1920s and 1930s. Harris was born in Cardiff, but from the age of five she went to live with her grandparents and grew up in an isolated cottage in the Dorset countryside. As a result of being very lonely only child she had plenty of time to read and also to dream up stories which she told to her imaginary friends. After leaving"
"The Ghost (Harris novel) The Ghost is a contemporary political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris. In 2010, the novel was adapted into a film, ""The Ghost Writer"", directed by Roman Polanski and starring Pierce Brosnan, for which Polanski and Harris co-wrote the screenplay. In 2007 British prime minister Tony Blair resigned. Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write the book. The ghost of the title refers both to a professional ghostwriter, whose lengthy memorandum forms the novel, and to his immediate predecessor who, as the action opens, has just"
"Robert Lindsey (journalist) Robert Lindsey (born 1935) is a journalist and author of several true crime books, including ""The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage"" (1980), the story of Christopher John Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee, who were both convicted of selling information to the Soviets. """" (1983) followed, a chronology of Christopher Boyce's escape from Federal prison and subsequent bank robbing spree. Lindsey received a Bachelor's Degree in History from San Jose State College in 1956. In 1980 he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best non-fiction crime book for ""The Falcon and"
"figure of 35,000 until 1939. The paper ceased publication in 1961 due to financial problems. The paper is frequently referenced in Robert Harris' historical novel ""An Officer and a Spy"", a fictionalized biography of Georges Picquart. As depicted in the book, the Dépêche was the means by which Picquart, effectively exiled to Tunisia by the army command, could keep up with developments in the Dreyfus Affair. Relying on telegraph, the paper was able to publish up to date Paris news, while it took four days for physical copies of the Paris newspapers to reach Tunisia. La Dépêche tunisienne La Dépêche"
"“The way to Power” begins the life, times and adventures of one man Richard Harris then aged 32 year through his life to 68 years. Harris a man with a common name but an uncommon nature. This book is purely fictional as to persons, institutions, times and places. It is about a man, not a person, who is ruthlessly ambitious, a Catholic believer (but not too religious) and a true follower of “Jong’s” synchronicity philosophy. “Power Seekers” takes the reader into a world of ruthless people, friends, envy, jealousy, ambition, treachery, hatred, love, disloyalty, lust and into the wealth and"
"Spy Story (novel) Spy Story is a 1974 spy novel by Len Deighton, which features minor characters from his earlier novels ""The IPCRESS File"", ""Funeral in Berlin"", ""Horse Under Water"", and ""Billion Dollar Brain"". In common with several of his other early novels, the chapter headings have a ""feature"". In ""Spy Story"" these take the form of excerpts from the fictional Studies Centre's rules. As in the earlier ""Unnamed hero"" novels, we never learn the protagonist's real name, only that he is living under the name Pat Armstrong. Armstrong works for the Studies Centre in London, where various tactical wargame"
"44th OSS 117 book that was published in English in 1965 under the title ""Live Wire"" (UK) and ""The Last Quarter Hour"" (USA). The American edition featured commentary by Pierre Salinger, who was acquainted with Josette Bruce, Jean Bruce's widow. Josette would take up writing OSS 117 novels in 1966. Secret Agent OSS 117, Colonel Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath (Frederick Stafford) has his Alpine ski holiday interrupted to receive a briefing on a series of suicide attacks performed by trusted assistants of their targets that they blow up with themselves. Using the cover of a journalist named Hubert Delacroix,"
"and even vice president George H.W. Bush, focuses on the machinations of Jackie Belfast (real name: Terry O’Rourke), a Democrat and attorney who, after a stint in President Jimmy Carter's White House and a subsequent period in California, returned to Houston to face off with his rival, Bingo Satwell (real name: Harris County Commissioner ""Boss"" Bob Eckels). Excerpts from the novel, which has attracted a sizable underground following, are available online. John Mecklin is married to Nina Dunbar. They have two children Dunbar and Hali John Mecklin (journalist) John Mecklin is a journalist, novelist and editor, who specializes in narrative"
"R. H. Bruce Lockhart Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, KCMG (2 September 1887 – 27 February 1970) was a British diplomat (Moscow, Prague), journalist, author, secret agent and footballer. His 1932 book, ""Memoirs of a British Agent"", became an international best-seller, and brought him to the world's attention. It tells of his failed effort to sabotage the Bolshevik revolution in Moscow in 1918; his co-conspirators were double agents working for the Bolsheviks. In the end the ""Lockhart Plot"", was a cunning `sting' deliberately manufactured and controlled by Soviet master spy Felix Dzerzhinsky with the goal of discrediting the British and"
"Force Historical Society'. In retirement Probert wrote several books on Royal Air Force history, most notably: ""Bomber Harris: His Life and Times"", an apologia work detailing the career of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Arthur ""Bomber"" Harris, which challenged the shadow that lay over his reputation for his command of the air attacks by R.A.F. Bomber Command upon German cities during World War 2, with their consequentially high civilian casualty rates. During the research for this book Probert was granted access by Harris' family to Harris' private papers, and his resulting conclusions were published in 2001. He also"
"Thomas Anthony Harris Thomas Anthony Harris (April 18, 1910–May 4, 1995) was an American psychiatrist and author who became famous for his self-help manual ""I'm OK, You're OK"" (1969). The book was a bestseller and its name became a cliché during the 1970s. Harris received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arkansas in 1938, and his M. D. from the Temple University School of Medicine in 1940. After graduation, he joined the Navy as a medical intern. He was aboard the submarine tender when it was attacked at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and sustained permanent hearing"
"Invisible Life Invisible Life is a novel by American author E. Lynn Harris published in 1994. The plot follows an African American man's journey of sexual discovery, in which he realizes he is a homosexual. In 2010, the ""Los Angeles Times"" listed the novel as one of the top 20 ""classic works of gay literature"" ever written. Raymond Winston Tyler Jr, is a sexy green eyed black man in a white dominated workplace. As a lawyer he knows the good things in life, but what obstacles did it take to get there. Brought up in Birmingham, Alabama. The story starts"
"Polanski's inability to travel legally to those places. In spite of his incarceration, he oversaw post-production from his house arrest and the film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2010, with Polanski winning the Silver Bear for Best Director award. Harris and Polanski later shared a César Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Harris was inspired to write his novel ""An Officer and a Spy"" by Polanski's longtime interest in the Dreyfus affair. He also wrote a screenplay based on the story, which Polanski was to direct in 2012. The screenplay was first titled ""D"", after the initial written"
"1980, and accompanied the mission on deployment. Hart jump-started the CIA's efforts to equip the Afghan resistance with weapons and supplies to allow them to mount an effective campaign during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Hart is a U.S. Martial Arms weapons collector with a ""passion for weapons and paramilitary tactics,"" making him a natural choice for the Islamabad post. In 2010 Hart published a book called: ""Intelligence Thoughts: Afghanistan and Iran."" In 2015 Hart published ""A Life for a Life: A Memoir: My Career in Espionage Working for the Central Intelligence Agency"" . Howard Hart Howard Phillips Hart (born"
"in Père Lachaise Cemetery. A dramatic portrayal of part of her life is contained in the 2001 film ""The Lady and the Duke"". English actress Lucy Russell played Elliott and Jean-Claude Dreyfus played the Duke of Orleans. Grace Elliott also appears as a major character in Hallie Rubenhold's novel ""The French Lesson"" (Doubleday, 2016). Grace Elliott Grace Dalrymple Elliott (c. 1754–16 May 1823) was a Scottish courtesan, writer and spy who resided in Paris at the time of the French Revolution. Elliott was an eyewitness to events which she detailed in her memoirs, ""Journal of my life during the French"
"Alexander Harris (writer) Alexander Harris (7 February 1805 – 1 February 1874) was a soldier, teacher and author known for his early fictional accounts of convict life in Australia. He arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1825 and returned to London, England in 1841. He had numerous jobs including a soldier, clerk, a tutor and a timber-getter. He travelled mostly around the Hunter Region, the Shoalhaven, Illawarra and Bathurst in New South Wales. In 1851 he emigrated to the United States. He emigrated to Berlin, Ontario on the outbreak of the U.S. civil war in 1861 and died in Copetown, Ontario"