In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, and stood down from this role in 2013. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).James was born in Oxford in 1920. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. At eighteen, Philippa Palfrey, the confident adopted daughter of a celebrated academic, exercises her right to find the names of her real parents. Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2016. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. James is a novel written in her later years and begins to reveal her admiration for novelists such as Jane Austin, Emily Bronte.
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