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P. D. James

1920 - 2014

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Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park (3 August 1920 – 27 November 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). P. D. James is the 1,029th most popular writer (up from 1,523rd in 2019), the 785th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,216th in 2019) and the 94th most popular British Writer.

P. D. James is best known for her crime novels, the most famous of which is the Adam Dalgliesh series.

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Among writers, P. D. James ranks 1,029 out of 7,302. Before her are Guido Cavalcanti, Persius, Hrotsvitha, Marguerite Porete, Benito Pérez Galdós, and Jean-Claude Carrière. After her are Charles De Coster, B. H. Liddell Hart, Johanna Schopenhauer, Marshall Rosenberg, Sam Shepard, and Ľudovít Štúr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, P. D. James ranks 54. Before her are Chiara Lubich, E. Donnall Thomas, Lawrence Klein, Shelley Winters, Walter Nowotny, and George Armitage Miller. After her are Dave Brubeck, Ovadia Yosef, Maureen O'Hara, Jack Elam, Ștefan Kovács, and Timothy Leary. Among people deceased in 2014, P. D. James ranks 41. Before her are Maya Angelou, Daniel Keyes, Dobrica Ćosić, Mickey Rooney, Karlheinz Böhm, and Luise Rainer. After her are Yozo Aoki, Maurice Duverger, Veljko Kadijević, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gyula Grosics, and Pete Seeger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, P. D. James ranks 785 out of 8,785. Before her are Julie Walters (1950), Thomas De Quincey (1785), John Gielgud (1904), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868), James Black (1924), and James Joseph Sylvester (1814). After her are Naomi Watts (1968), Stuart Sutcliffe (1940), Malcolm III of Scotland (1031), Robert FitzRoy (1805), Robert Peel (1788), and Thomas Malory (1405).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, P. D. James ranks 94. Before her are H. Rider Haggard (1856), James Hadley Chase (1906), John Fowles (1926), Samuel Richardson (1689), Henry Fielding (1707), and Thomas De Quincey (1785). After her are Thomas Malory (1405), Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757), Diana Wynne Jones (1934), Robert Graves (1895), John Berger (1926), and Dylan Thomas (1914).

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