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P.D. James was born Phyllis Dorothy James in Oxford, England, in 1920.
* She worked in the National Health Service and the Home Office before becoming a full-time writer in 1979.
* Her first novel, Cover Her Face, was published in 1962.
* She is best known for her detective novels featuring Adam Dalgliesh.
* She has won numerous awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
* She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1983 and a life peer in 1991.
* She died in 2014 at the age of 94.
* Her work has been praised for its realism, psychological insight, and moral complexity.
* She is considered one of the greatest crime writers of all time.