biography
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James, P D
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pseudonym of Phyllis Dorothy White, Baroness James of Holland Park
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| lived:
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| biography:
| Detective-story writer, born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. Educated at Cambridge High School, she worked as a National Health Service administrator (1949–68) and at the Home Office (1968–9), first in the Police Department, then in the children's division of the Criminal Department. The experience provided the backgrounds of several of her novels, such as Shroud for a Nightingale (1971), Death of an Expert Witness (1977), Innocent Blood (1980), A Taste for Death (1986), Original Sin (1994), and A Certain Justice (1997). The futuristic novel The Children of Men (1992) represents a new departure, a 'fragment of autobiography', Time to be in Earnest, appeared in 1999, and Death in Holy Orders in 2001. She was made a baroness in 1991. |
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