AKA Phyllis Dorothy James

Born: 3-Aug-1920
Birthplace: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Died: 27-Nov-2014
Location of death: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Adam Dalgliesh series, etc.

Father: Sidney James
Mother: Dorothy
Husband: Ernest Connor Bantry White (m. 1941, d. 1964, two daughters)
Daughter: Clare
Daughter: Jane

    High School: Cambridge High School for Girls

    Edgar Allan Poe Award Grand Master (1999)
    Officer of the British Empire 1983
    Life Peerage 1991 as Baroness James of Holland Park

Author of books:
Cover Her Face (1962, novel, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series)
A Mind to Murder (1963, novel, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series)
Unnatural Causes (1967, novel, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series)
Shroud for a Nightingale (1971, novel, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series)
Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972, novel, Cordelia Gray series)
The Black Tower (1975, novel, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series)
Death of an Expert Witness (1977, novel, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series)
Innocent Blood (1980, novel)
Murder in Triplicate (1980, novel)
The Skull Beneath the Skin (1982, novel, Cordelia Gray series)
A Taste for Death (1986, novel, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series)
Devices And Desires (1989, novel, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series)
The Children of Men (1992, novel)
Original Sin (1994, novel, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series)
A Certain Justice (1997, novel, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series)
Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography (1999, memoir)
Death in Holy Orders (2001, novel)
The Murder Room (2003, novel)

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