P.D. JAMES
Name: Phyllis Dorothy James
Born: 3 August 1920
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3
August 1920) is an English writer of crime fiction, under the name P. D. James,
and is a life peer in the British House of Lords.[1]
James did not begin writing until she reached her thirties. Her first novel,
Cover Her Face, featuring the investigator/poet Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland
Yard, was published in 1962. She has said that her influences include Jane
Austen, Dorothy L. Sayers (herself a well-known British author of mysteries),
Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh.
Name: Phyllis Dorothy James
Born: 3 August 1920
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3
August 1920) is an English writer of crime fiction, under the name P. D. James,
and is a life peer in the British House of Lords.[1]
James did not begin writing until she reached her thirties. Her first novel,
Cover Her Face, featuring the investigator/poet Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland
Yard, was published in 1962. She has said that her influences include Jane
Austen, Dorothy L. Sayers (herself a well-known British author of mysteries),
Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh.