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Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (August 3, 1920 – November 27, 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. James was born in Oxford, the daughter of Sidney Victor James, a tax inspector, and his wife, Dorothy Mary James. She was educated at the British School in Ludlow and Cambridge High School for Girls. Her mother was committed to a mental hospital when James was in her mid-teens. She had to leave sc…
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- Apostrophes (1975) as Self
- The South Bank Show (1978) as Self
- A Taste for Death (1988) Writer
- Children of Men (2006) Novel
- Dalgliesh (2021) Book
- Prisoners of Gravity (1989) as Self
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1997) Characters
- The Big Questions (2007) as Self
- Dalgliesh (1983) Creator
- Death Comes to Pemberley (2013) Novel
- The Black Tower (1985) Writer
- Death of an Expert Witness (1983) Writer
- Devices and Desires (1991) Novel
- Shroud for a Nightingale (1984) Creator
- A Certain Justice (1998) Writer
- Original Sin (1997) Novel
- A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (2013) as Self
- Cover Her Face (1985) Creator
- The Murder Room (2004) Novel
- A Mind to Murder (1995) Novel
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982) Novel
- Presumption: The Life of Jane Austen (1995) as Self
- Pride and Prejudice: From Page to Screen (1995) as Self
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Selected TV credits: Apostrophes (1975), The South Bank Show (1978), A Taste for Death (1988), Dalgliesh (2021), Prisoners of Gravity (1989).
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