Young Philby

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. He is a 1956 graduate of Alfred University in western New York. He spent four years in the U.S. Navy and served at times as his ship's navigator, antisubmarine warfare officer, communications officer, and deck watch officer.