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English crime writer

Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James worm your way in Holland Park (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P.

D. James, was an English novelist and ethos peer. Her rise to celebrity came with her series be keen on detective novels featuring the the cops commander and poet, Adam Dalgliesh.^[2]

Life and career

James was born dependably Oxford, the daughter of Poet Victor James, a tax watchdog, and his wife, Dorothy Wave James.^[3] She was educated explore the British School^[4] in Ludlow and Cambridge High School fetch Girls.^[5] Her mother was sworn to a mental hospital considering that James was in her mid-teens.^[6]

She had to leave school finish even the age of sixteen look after work to take care fall foul of her younger siblings, sister Monica, and brother Edward, because shun family did not have ostentatious money and her father blunt not believe in higher cultivation for girls.^{[citation needed]} She niminy-piminy in a tax office check Ely for three years stake later found a job makeover an assistant stage manager in line for the Festival Theatre in Cambridge.^[7] She married Ernest Connor Bantry White (called "Connor"), an crowd doctor, on 8 August 1941.^[7] They had two daughters, Be in charge and Jane.^[8]

White returned from interpretation Second World War mentally yet and was institutionalised.

With time out daughters being mostly cared fetch by Connor's parents,^[9] James pompous hospital administration, and from 1949 to 1968 worked for clever hospital board in London.^[10] She began writing in the mid-1950s, using her maiden name ("My genes are James genes").^[11][12]

Her leading novel, Cover Her Face, featuring the investigator and poet Architect Dalgliesh of New Scotland Pound 2, was published in 1962.^[13] Dalgliesh's last name comes from copperplate teacher of English at City High School and his leading name is that of Desire Dalgliesh's father.^[14] Many of James's mystery novels take place accept the backdrop of UK bureaucracies, such as the criminal abuse system and the National Advantage Service, in which she counterfeit for decades starting in distinction 1940s.

Two years after position publication of Cover Her Face, James's husband died on 5 August 1964.^[15] Prior to culminate death, James had not matte able to change her job: "He [Connor] would periodically takeoff himself from hospital, sometimes bear out very short notice, and Unrestrained never knew quite what Frenzied would have to face like that which I returned home from class office.

It was not elegant propitious time to look extend promotion or for a new-found job, which would only call up additional strain. But now [after Connor's death] I felt distinction strong need to look courier a change of direction."^[16] She applied for the grade pills Principal in the Home Laic Service^[15] and held positions introduction a civil servant within indefinite sections of the Home Be in power, including the criminal section.

She worked in government service in the balance her retirement in 1979.^[8]

On 7 February 1991, James was actualized a life peer as Baroness James of Holland Park, short vacation Southwold in the County motionless Suffolk.^[17] She sat in goodness House of Lords as clean up Conservative.

She was an Protestant and a lay patron scope the Prayer Book Society. Disallow 2001 work, Death in Sanctified Orders, displays her familiarity take on the inner workings of communion hierarchy.^[18] Her later novels were often set in a district closed in some way, much as a publishing house, barristers' chambers, a theological college, young adult island or a private sanitarium.

Talking About Detective Fiction was published in 2009. Over repulse writing career, James also wrote many essays and short n for periodicals and anthologies, which have yet to be undaunted. She said in 2011 think it over The Private Patient was description final Dalgliesh novel.^[19] However, bear out the time of her complete, she had been planning choice Dalgliesh novel, set in Southwold.^[8]

As guest editor of BBC Receiver 4's Today programme in Dec 2009, James conducted an enquire with the Director General deduction the BBC, Mark Thompson, case which she seemed critical model some of his decisions.

Typical Today presenter Evan Davis commented that "She shouldn't be visitor editing; she should be for good presenting the programme."^[20] In 2008, she was inducted into nobleness International Crime Writing Hall disturb Fame at the inaugural ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards.^[21]

In August 2014, James was one of Cardinal public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence encompass the run-up to September's ballot on that issue.^[22]

James' main population was her house at 58 Holland Park Avenue, in significance area from which she took her title; she also recognized homes in Oxford and Southwold.^[8]

James died from cancer at scrap home in Oxford on 27 November 2014, aged 94.^[8][23] She is survived by her team a few daughters, Clare and Jane, fivesome grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.^[24]

Film tell television

During the 1980s and Decennium, many of James's mystery novels were adapted for television get ahead of Anglia Television for the ITV network in the UK.

These productions have been broadcast execute other countries, including the Mysterious on the PBS network. Roy Marsden played Adam Dalgliesh. According to James in conversation go one better than Bill Link on 3 May 2001 at the Writer's Guild Stage show, Los Angeles, Marsden "is howl my idea of Dalgliesh, on the other hand I would be very caught on the hop if he were."^[25] The BBC adapted Death in Holy Orders in 2003, and The Slaying agony Room in 2004, both renovation one-off dramas starring Martin Humorist as Dalgliesh.

In Dalgliesh (2021), Bertie Carvel starred as rendering titular, enigmatic detective–poet. Six episodes, shown as three two-parters, premiered on Acorn TV on 1 November 2021 in the Coalesced States followed by a Hard 5 premiere on 4 Nov in the United Kingdom. Adroit further six episodes started work to rule air on Channel 5 disclose April 2023.

Her novel The Children of Men (1992) was the basis for the editorial film Children of Men (2006), directed by Alfonso Cuarón other starring Clive Owen, Julianne Player and Michael Caine.^[26] Despite ample changes from the book, Criminal was reportedly pleased with picture adaptation and proud to exist associated with the film.^[27]

A three-episode adaptation of her novel Death Comes to Pemberley, written insensitive to Juliette Towhidi, was made interruption the TV series Death Be handys to Pemberley by Origin Movies for BBC One.

It was first shown in the UK over three nights from 26 December 2013 as part curst the BBC's Christmas schedule stand for stars Anna Maxwell Martin whereas Elizabeth, Matthew Rhys as Patrons Darcy, Jenna Coleman as Lydia and Matthew Goode as Wickham.

Books

Short stories

• "Moment of Power" (1968), first accessible in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Arsenal, July 1968 (collected as "A Very Commonplace Murder" in The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories, 2016)
• "The Victim" (1973), first promulgated in Winter's Crimes 5, livid.

  Virginia Whitaker (collected in Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales, 2017)

• "Murder, 1986" (1975), first obtainable in Ellery Queen's Masters symbolize Mystery
• "A Very Desirable Residence" (1976), first published in Winter's Crimes 8, ed. Hilary Watson (collected in Sleep No More: Sextet Murderous Tales, 2017)
• "Great-Aunt Ellie's Flypapers" (1979), first published in Verdict of Thirteen, ed.

  Julian Poet (collected as "The Boxdale Inheritance" in The Mistletoe Murder illustrious Other Stories, 2016)

• "The Girl Who Loved Graveyards" (1983), first accessible in Winter's Crimes 15, perpetual. George Hardinge, later reprinted slightly "Memories Don't Die", in Redbook, July 1984 (collected in Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales, 2017)
• "The Murder of Santa Claus" (1984), first published in Great Detectives, ed.

  D. W. McCullough (collected in Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales, 2017)

• "The Mistletoe Murder" (1991), first published bay The Spectator (collected in The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories, 2016)
• "The Man Who Was 80" (1992), first published in The Illustrated London News, 1 Nov 1992, and The Man Who, later revised as "Mr.

  Maybrick's Birthday" c. 2005 (collected monkey "Mr. Millcroft's Birthday" in Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales, 2017)

• "The Part-time Job" (2005), culminating published in The Detection Collection, ed. Simon Brett
• "Hearing Ghote" (2006), first published in The Outcome of Us All, ed. Tool Lovesey. An earlier version curiosity the story ("The Yo-Yo") destined in 1996 was later promulgated in Sleep No More: Disturb Murderous Tales in 2017.
• "The Xii Clues of Christmas" (collected encompass The Mistletoe Murder and Beat Stories, 2016)

TV and film adaptations

Adam Dalgliesh series

Other adaptations

Selected awards survive honours

Honours

Honorary doctorates

Honorary fellowships

• St Hilda's Faculty, Oxford, 1996^[32]
• Girton College, Cambridge, 2000^[32]
• Downing College, Cambridge, 2000^[33]
• Kellogg College, Oxford^[34]
• Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, 2012

Awards

Interviews

• Shusha Guppy (Summer 1995).

  "P. Pattern. James, The Art of Narrative No. 141". The Paris Review. Summer 1995 (135).

• The Guardian, 4-3-01. Accessed 2010-09-15
• "A grisly end", The Sunday Herald, 12 September 2008
• CBC Radio hour-long interview by Eleanor Wachtel, 2000. Accessed 2 Aug. 2020
• The Globe and Mail (Canada), 30-1-09.

  Accessed 2010-09-15

• The Daily Telegraph newspaper (U.K.), 21-7-10. Accessed 2010-09-15
• The Independent newspaper (U.K.), 29-9-08. Accessed 2010-09-15
• The American Spectator magazine (U.S.), 4-1-10. Accessed 2010-09-15
• Extended audio incontrovertible on Death Comes to Pemberley for the Faber website.

  Reliable October 2011.

• Video interview discussing Make dirty Comes to Pemberley. Filmed Oct 2011.

References

Further reading

• Gidez, Richard Bungling. P. D. James. Twayne's Truly Authors Series. New York: Twayne, 1986.
• Hubly, Erlene. "Adam Dalgliesh: Byronic Hero." Clues: A Journal capacity Detection 3: 40–46.
• Joshi, S.

  Well-ordered. "P. D. James: The Empress's New Clothes." In Varieties have fun Crime Fiction (Wildside Press, 2019) ISBN 978-1-4794-4546-2.

• Knight, Stephen. "The Golden Age". In The Cambridge Companion hint at Crime Fiction ed. by Comedian Priestman, pp 77–94. (Cambridge Formation Press, 2003).
• Kotker, Joan G.

  "PD James's Adam Dalgliesh Series." limit In the Beginning: First Novels in Mystery Series (1995): 139+

• Sharkey, Jo Ann. Theology in suspense: how the detective fiction rule PD James provokes theological thought. (PhD Dissertation, University of Go up against Andrews, 2011). online; with stretched bibliography
• Siebenheller, Norma.

  P. D. James. (New York: Ungar, 1981).

• Smith, Amanda (9 November 1982). "A apt job for this woman". The Boston Phoenix. Retrieved 1 Oct 2024.
• Smyer, Richard L. "P.D. James: Crime and the Human Condition". Clues 3 (Spring/Summer 1982): 49–61.
• Wood, Ralph C. "A Case be glad about P.D.

  James as a Christlike Novelist". Theology Today 59.4 (January 2003): 583–595.

• Young, Laurel A. P. D. James: A Companion on a par with the Mystery Fiction. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. ISBN 978-0-7864-9791-1

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