Phyllis Dorothy James Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
P.D. James was born on August 3, 1920 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England as Phyllis Dorothy James. She was a writer and producer, known for Children of Men (2006), Unnatural Causes (1993) and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982). She was married to Ernest Connor Bantry White. She died on November 27, 2014 in Oxford.
Perhaps Adam Dalgliesh is an idealized version of what I'd have liked to be if I had been born a man.
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If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.
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That kind of crime writing was dull, in the sense that it was unrealistic, prettifying and romanticizing murder, but having little to do with real blood-and-guts tragedy. One simply cannot take these as realistic books about murder, about the horror of murder, the tragedy of murder, the harm that murder does.
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When I first heard that Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall, I immediately wondered: Did he fall - or was he pushed? [on her interest in mysterious deaths developing in childhood]
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I think I'm very frightened of violence. I hate it. And it may be that by writing mysteries I am able, as it were, to exorcise this fear, which may very well be the same reason so many people enjoy reading a mystery.
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[If] detective fiction flourishes best in the most difficult of times, we may well be at the beginning of a golden age.
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[on writing mystery stories] I have a very strong response to what I feel is the spirit of a place. When I come upon the right setting I feel immediately 'This is where it happened'.
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Fact
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British crime novelist, author of twenty books and creator of sleuth Adam Dalgliesh. Began writing relatively late in life, her first published novel being "Cover Her Face" in 1962.
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A Governor of the BBC, 1988-1993.
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Educated at Cambridge Girls' High School.
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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In 1991 she was created "Baroness James of Holland Park" but is still popularly known as "P.D. James"
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In 1983 she was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E) by the Queen.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Death Comes to Pemberley
2013
TV Mini-Series novel - 3 episodes
Children of Men
2006
novel "The Children of Men"
The Murder Room
2005
TV Mini-Series novel - 2 episodes
Death in Holy Orders
2003
TV Mini-Series novel - 2 episodes
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
TV Series characters - 3 episodes, 1998 - 2001 novel "An Unsuitable Job For A Woman" - 1 episode, 1997
$300,000
