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P.D. James was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School. She has written eighteen novels, fourteen of which feature the poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh, and two non-fiction books. After 30 years in the civil service, including a senior position in the Police and Criminal Justice Departments of Great Britain’s Home Office, she held a series of distinguished cultural and literary offices, among them Governor of the BBC, on the boards of the Arts Council and British Council and as a magistrate in London. She is the lifelong President of the Society of Authors. She was awarded the OBE in 1983 and created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991. In 1999 she was given the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award, and has received many major awards for her crime writing from Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia. She has honorary doctorates from seven British universities. She is the widow of a doctor and has two children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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“The greatest contemporary writer of classic crime”. Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
“P.D. James is one of the national treasures of British fiction…. Hers is still, thank goodness, the world of the classic detective tale”. – Malcolm Bradbury, Mail on Sunday
“The ability to haunt has earned P.D. James the title ‘queen’ of crime. Long may she reign”. – Chicago Sun-Times
“The work of Baroness James of Holland Park has elevated English detective fiction far beyond the diverting puzzles typical of the genre novelists of an earlier generation. Lady James is a perceptive chronicler of the changing landscape of London; the flux of urban development and the housing market; the corrosive culture of sink estates; the ruthless politics of the professions; and even the use of the internet for hedonistic purposes. Like Wilkie Collins and Edgar Allan Poe, she has looked at the darkness of the human psyche, and created from it not just entertainment but literature.” – The Times
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