Reginald Charles Hill FRSL (3 April 1936 – 12 January 2012) was an English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.
[when the 21st Dalziel and Pascoe novel was published in 2007, an interviewer asked him if this was his 48th published novel to date] That sounds very reasonable. I counted religiously till I got to 10, then in a more secular fashion till I got to 20, and after that I lost interest in keeping a tally. I mean, if 20 doesn't mean you're a real writer, then what number does?
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Son of a professional rugby player father. He studied English at St. Catherine's College at Oxford University in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He taught until 1980.
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He is survived by his wife, Pat Hill of Cumbria, England; his brothers, David Hill and Desmond Hill.
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He was awarded the Golden Dagger from the Crime Writers Association, a British organization, "Bones and Silence," in 1990. He was given the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Diamond Dagger, from the Crime Writers Association in 1995.
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He was the son of a professional rugby player who was the evident model for the rugby star in "A Clubbable Woman." After studying English at Oxford, he became a teacher, but gave it up in 1980 to become a full-time writer.
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He used his wife's name, Patricia Ruell, as the basis for the pen name Patrick Ruell under which some of his earlier books were published.
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The name of his character Andrew Dalziel is pronounced DEE-ell.
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