birth_place birth_date birthname article_title name occupation
marylebone , london 18 february 1929 leonard cyril deighton len deighton
 len deighton military and novelist historian , cookery writer , graphic artist ,
len deighton

leonard cyril deighton -lrb- ; born 18 february 1929 -rrb- , known as len deighton , is a british military historian , cookery writer , graphic artist , and novelist .
he is perhaps most famous for his spy novel `` the ipcress file '' , which was made into a film starring michael caine as harry palmer .
