John Cornwell (writer)

John Cornwell ( born 1940 in London) is an English journalist and author. He is a brother of John le Carré.

Life and work

After completing his studies at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the London Sunday newspaper The Observer Cornwell entrusted with the management of its foreign desk.

He is the author of several books, including a biography of the English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In the German -speaking world, he was by his 1989 published book Like a thief in the night known in which he turned against conspiracy theories about the death of Pope John Paul I.. Attention will be attracted his work on Pope Pius XII. , In which, as in the English title is clear, Pius XII. as " Hitler's Pope " called.

Cornwell also wrote several replies from a Christian perspective on Richard Dawkins.

Honors

Publications

• Coleridge, Poet and Revolutionary ( 1772-1804 ). A Critical Biography. Lane, London 1973, ISBN 0-7139-0461-5.
• Research for the guide. German scientists and the Second World War. Bastion - Luebbe, Bergisch- Gladbach in 2006, ISBN 3-404-64214-7.
• Forces of light and darkness. Occult phenomena in Christianity, mystery or manipulation? Heyne, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-453-11765-4.
• Pius XII. - The Pope, who has been silent. Ullsteinhaus, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-60087-5.
• Like a thief in the night. The death of Pope John Paul I. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Wien, 1989, ISBN 3-552-04111-7.