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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
- Prisoners of Gravity (1989) as Self
- Children of Men (2006) Novel
- Dalgliesh (2021) Book
- Dalgliesh (1983) Creator
- The Big Questions (2007) as Self
- Death Comes to Pemberley (2013) Novel
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1997) Characters
- A Taste for Death (1988) Writer
- A Certain Justice (1998) Writer
- Devices and Desires (1991) Writer
- Original Sin (1997) Novel
- A Mind to Murder (1995) Novel
- A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (2013) as Self
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982) Novel
- Death of an Expert Witness (1983) Writer
- Cover Her Face (1985) Creator
- The Murder Room (2004) Novel
- The Black Tower (1985) Writer
- Pride and Prejudice: From Page to Screen (1995) as Self
- Presumption: The Life of Jane Austen (1995) as Self
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Selected TV credits: Apostrophes (1975), The South Bank Show (1978), Prisoners of Gravity (1989), Dalgliesh (2021), Dalgliesh (1983).
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