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P. D. James (1920 - )

Category: English Literature

Born: 1920
Oxford, England

Related authors:
Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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8/3/1920		P. D. James in Earnest On this day in 1920 P.D. James was born. Her 1999 "fragment of autobiography" is entitled Time to Be in Earnest, from Samuel Johnson's statement that "At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest." The memoir is a one-year diary beginning with her seventy-seventh birthday and ending with the assurance that "I shall continue to write detective stories as long as I can write well...." True to her word, her next novel, at age eighty-one, had reviewers declaring that she had "transcended the crime genre."

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A Certain Justice fiction
A Mind to Murder fiction
A Taste for Death fiction
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman fiction
Cover Her Face fiction
Death of an Expert Witness fiction
Devices and Desires fiction
Original Sin fiction
Shroud for a Nightingale fiction
The Black Tower fiction
The Murder Room fiction
Time To Be in Earnest memoirs
Unnatural Causes fiction

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