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    P. D. James

    English crime writer

    The Right Honourable


    The Baroness James of Holland Park


    OBE FRSA FRSL

    James in 2013

    BornPhyllis Dorothy James
    (1920-08-03)3 August 1920
    Oxford, England
    Died27 November 2014(2014-11-27) (aged 94)
    Oxford, England
    Pen nameP.

    D. James

    OccupationNovelist
    Genre
    Spouse

    Ernest Connor Bantry White

    (m. 1941; died 1964)​
    Children2

    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.[2]

    Life and career

    James was born in Oxford, the daughter of Sidney Victor James, a tax inspector, and his wife, Dorothy Mary James.[3] She was educated at the British School[4]