P. D. James (1920–2014)

Auteur van De verloren generatie

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P. D. James, pseudonym of Phyllis Dorothy James White, was born on August 3, 1920 in Oxford, England. During World War II, she served as a Red Cross nurse. She worked in administration for 19 years with the National Health Service. After the death of her husband in 1964, she took a Civil Service toon meer examination and became an administrator in the forensic science and criminal law divisions of the Department of Home Affairs. She spent 30 years in British Civil Service. She became Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991. Her first novel, Cover Her Face, was published in 1962. She wrote approximately 20 books during her lifetime including the Adam Dalgliesh Mystery series, the Cordelia Gray Mystery series, and Death Comes to Pemberley. She became a full-time writer in 1979. Three titles in the Adam Dalgliesh Mystery series received the Silver Dagger award--Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and A Taste for Death. In 2000, she published her autobiography, Time to Be in Earnest. Her dystopian novel, The Children of Men, was adapted into a movie in 2006. She received the Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement. She died on November 27, 2014 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) P. D. James served in the forensic & criminal justice departments of Great Britain's Home Office until her retirement in 1979. She was made a Life Peer in 1991. Her detective novels include "Cover Her Face", "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman", "Death of an Expert Witness", "A Taste for Death", "Original Sin", & "A Certain Justice", many of which have been adapted for television. Her autobiography, "Time to be in Earnest", was published in 2000. (Publisher Provided) toon minder

Bevat de namen: PDJams, P.D. ames, JAMES P. D., P. D. James, Phyllis D. James, Baroness P. D. James, Phyllis Dorothy James, Phillis Dorothy James, Baroness James Of Holland Park, psevd. for Phyllis James White Phyllis Dorothy Jam

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Officiële naam: James of Holland Park, Phyllis Dorothy, Baroness
White, Phyllis Dorothy (married)
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten: Baroness James of Holland Park
Geboortedatum: 1920-08-03
Overlijdensdatum: 2014-11-27
Geslacht: female
Nationaliteit: GB
Land (voor op de kaart): England, UK
Geboorteplaats: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Plaats van overlijden: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK (at home)
Woonplaatsen: London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Opleiding: Cambridge High School for Girls
Beroepen: novelist
civil servant
magistrate
governor (BBC)
Member of the House of Lords (Conservative)
Organisaties: Society of Authors (president|1997-2013)
Arts Council (literary advisory panel chairman)
British Broadcasting Corporation (governor)
British Council (board member)
Downing College, Cambridge (honorary fellow)
Girton College, Cambridge (honorary fellow) (toon alle 10)
Prayer Book Society (lay patron)
St Hilda's College, Oxford (honorary fellow)
National Health Service
Department of Home Affairs
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: Cartier Diamond Dagger (1987)
Agent: Greene and Heaton

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