Ruth Rendell
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- Born
- 17 February 1930
- Died
- 2 May 2015
- Works
- 502
Top works
- Der Herr des Moors
- Le-shaḳer ṿela-mut
- King Solomon's Carpet
- Crossing the Border
- A New Lease of Death
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Writing · South Woodford, Essex, England, UK
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford.
Known for
- This Morning — Self1988
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Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; born 17 February 1930), is an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell’s best-known creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, is the hero of many popular police stories, some of them successfully adapted for TV. But Rendell has also generated a separate brand of crime-fiction that explores deeply into the psychological background of criminals and their victims, many of them mentally afflicted or other
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- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,828x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
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- Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine
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Key facts
- Born
- Ruth Barbara Grasemann , ( 1930-02-17 ) 17 February 1930, Woodford , Essex, England
- Died
- 2 May 2015 (2015-05-02) (aged 85), London, England
- Pen name
- Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Genre
- Psychological thriller murder mystery
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Key dates
- Born
- 17 February 1930
- Died
- 2 May 2015
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ruth
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- journalist
- Political party
- Labour Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
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Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford. A second string of works was a series of unrelated crime novels that explored the psychological background of criminals and their victims. This theme was developed further in a third series of novels, published under the pseudonym Barbara Vine.
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