P. D. James
Writing
Born August 3, 1920 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
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.
Filmography
Dalgliesh
Death Comes to Pemberley
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
Self
The Big Questions
Self
Children of Men
Café Customer (uncredited)
The Murder Room
A Certain Justice
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Original Sin
Pride and Prejudice: From Page to Screen
Self
Presumption: The Life of Jane Austen
Self
A Mind to Murder
Devices and Desires
Prisoners of Gravity
Self
A Taste for Death
The Black Tower
Cover Her Face
Shroud for a Nightingale
Death of an Expert Witness
Dalgliesh
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
The South Bank Show
Self
Apostrophes
Self