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Phyllis Dorothy James | | Birth Date: |
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 Biography of P. D. James
12,470 words, approx. 42 pages
 The coming-of-age of a mature crime fiction in England, to which P. D. James has contributed prominently, can be attributed to a variety of disparate causes: the rapid changes in a society that had appeared for so long as monolithic; the end of the... summary from source:
 Biography of Phyllis Dorothy James White
11,974 words, approx. 40 pages
[This entry was updated by Ann Sanders Cargill (Columbia, S.C.) from the entry by Bernard Benstock (University of Miami) in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 180-199.] The coming-of-age of a mature crime fiction in... summary from source:
Biography of Phyllis Dorothy James White
5,045 words, approx. 17 pages
P. D. James is the inheritor of some of the most distinguished literary mantles in popular fiction, those previously worn by detective-story writers who achieved near perfection in their craft. James's works hearken back to Agatha Christie's ingenious...
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 P. D. James Quotes
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 P. D. James (born August 3, 1920 in Oxford) is a British writer of crime fiction and member of the House of Lords. Unsourced If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of...
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 P. D. James Information
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Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August, 1920) is an English writer of crime fiction, under the name P. D. James, and is a life peer in the British House of...
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 Dayton Daily News P.d. James Does It Again
10/18/2003: 626 words, approx. 2 pages The bad news is, she won't be stopping in Dayton Because I have a granddaughter who knows how to order books from England, I was able to read The Murder Room, the latest novel by P.D. James, long before now. In fact, it... summary from source:
The Washington Post From Page to Screen With P.D. James
10/10/2004: 362 words, approx. 1 pages She is now a baroness, but to millions of readers worldwide, P.D. James is a spinner of crime novels rich with detail and memorable characters. Her first Adam Dalgliesh book was published in 1962. Other Dalgliesh novels followed, along with several stand-alone titles,... summary from source:
 AP News Today in History - Aug. 3
8/3/2007: 576 words, approx. 2 pagesToday is Friday, Aug. 3, the 215th day of 2007. There are 150 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Two hundred years ago, on Aug. 3, 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr went on trial before a federal court in Richmond, Va., charged with... summary from source:
The New York Observer Cuar\'97n\'d5s Hard Pill to Swallow: Dystopic Future Without Babies
1/21/2007: 2,142 words, approx. 7 pagesAlfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, from a screenplay by Mr. Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, is based on the futuristic sci-fi novel by P.D. James. If I had seen it before I compiled my “Movies Other People Liked and...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Christine Wick Sizemore
12,188 words, approx. 41 pages
In the following essay, Sizemore analyzes the role of London, with its mosaic of villages and people, in James's fiction, especially A Taste for Death and Innocent Blood.
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Critical Essay by Betty Richardson
4,669 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, Richardson delineates the common symbolism and imagery between T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and James's A Taste for Death and asserts that work is still meaningful to readers who do not recognize the influence.
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Interview by P. D. James with Rosemary Herbert
4,431 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following interview, James discusses how her novels differ from those of the traditional detective genre, and the inspiration behind her characters and plots.
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