Biography of P. D. James
Name: P. D. James
Birth Date: August 3, 1920
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Oxford, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: author
P. D. James
The British author P(hyllis) D(orothy) James (born 1920) wrote in the tradition of the British crime storyteller, but her extensive explorations of relationships, motivations, and meanings of justice classified her, in the opinion of some, as a novelist.P. D. James--Queen of Crime, Mistress of Murder, OBE (Order of the British Empire), baroness, and grandmother--was born Phyllis Dorothy James on August 3, 1920, in Oxford, England, the oldest of three children. Her parents, Sidney Victor, a tax official, and Dorothy May (Hone) James, moved the family to Cambridge, where James attended the Cambridge High School for Girls. One of this century's foremost crime novelists had to leave school at age 16 to work in a tax office, followed by a stint as assistant stage manager for the Festival Theatre in Cambridge. (Her own play A Private Treason was staged in 1985 in London's West End.)During World War II she worked …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…writers should be involved with the outside world. James was also named the Baroness James of Holland Park (her London neighborhood) in 1991 and was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1992. Further Reading Two books are available on James: P. D. James by Richard B. Gidez (1986); and P. D. James by Norma Siebenheller (1981); SueEllen Campbell discusses "The Detective Heroine and the Death of her Hero: Dorothy Sayers to P. D. James" in Modern Fiction Studies 29 (Autumn 1983); in the same volume appears Erlene Hubly's "The Formula Challenged: The Novels of P. D. James"; Patricia A. Ward treats of "Moral Ambiguities and the Crime Novels of P. D. James" in Christian Century 101 (May 16, 1984); and M. Cannon discusses James' particular brand of crime in "Mistress of Malice Domestic" in the New York Times Book Review for April 27, 1980; P. D. James herself, in Murder Ink, has written "House Calls: The Doctor Detective Round-up."
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