biography
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Rendell (of Babergh), Ruth Rendell, Baroness
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originally Ruth Barbara Grasemann, occasional pseudonym Barbara Vine
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pronunciation:
[rendl]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Detective-story writer, born in London, UK. She went to school in Loughton, Essex, and spent some time as a journalist and managing director of a local newspaper before publishing her first novel From Doon with Death in 1964. Several of her detective stories feature Chief Inspector Wexford, such as Shake Hands Forever (1975), Simisola (1994), and Harm Done (1999), and she has also written mystery thrillers including A Judgement in Stone (1977), and books of short stories. Books written under her pseudonym include The House of Stairs (1988), Gallowglass (1990), The Brimstone Wedding (1995), and Grasshopper (2000). Many of her stories have been filmed or televised, notably in the series The Ruth Rendell Mysteries. She received the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981. In 1997 she received a life peerage. |
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