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P. D. James
Sign in to saveAlso known as Phyllis Dorothy James, Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, Phyllis James, Baroness Phyllis Dorothy James
English crime writer (1920-2014)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 3 August 1920
- Died
- 27 November 2014
- Works
- 75
Top works
- Country House Murders
- Devices and desires
- The Verdict of Us All
- Ellery Queen's murder menu
- "What's so special about books?, or, how to answer the child who says that Dickens would have written for video if he'd had the chance"
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1920
- Active to
- 2014
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 123
- Total plays
- 2,824
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,634x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 67,224x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 65,142x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,745x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,279x
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Quotes
- “I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.”
- “I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.”
- “Cordelia was fumbling in her shoulder bag for her own key. As usual the object most required had fallen to the bottom of the bag.”
- “Invited by Major Markland to sit, Cordelia perched on the edge of the sofa, half expecting the smooth cushion to let out a rude noise as it subsided beneath her. She found it, however, unexpectedly hard.”
- “It was only in fiction that the people one wanted to interview were sitting ready at home or in their office, with time, energy and interest to spare. In real life they were about their own business and one waited on their convenience.”
- “"It isn't what you suspect, it's what you can prove that counts."”
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Key facts
- Born
- Phyllis Dorothy James , ( 1920-08-03 ) 3 August 1920, Oxford , England
- Died
- 27 November 2014 (2014-11-27) (aged 94), Oxford, England
- Pen name
- P. D. James
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Genre
- Crime fiction thriller dystopian fiction
- Spouse
- Ernest Connor Bantry White ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 ; died 1964 )
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/249708/p-d-james
- Image
- PD James Cologne.JPG
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- date of death
- 2014-11-27
- date of birth
- 1920-08-03
- birth name
- Phyllis Dorothy James
- name in native language
- P. D. James
- Commons category
- P. D. James
- P10632
- P. D. James
- married name
- Phyllis Dorothy James White
- pseudonym
- P. D. James
Sources (12)
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Article
58 Holland Park Avenue, London W11 where PD James lived from 1984 to 2012 Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring the police commander and poet, Adam Dalgliesh.
Life and career