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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
P. D. James
Born: August 3, 1920
Died: November 27, 2014 (aged 94)
Bio: Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, known as P. D. James, was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh.
Known for:
- Death Comes to Pemberley (2011)
- Cover Her Face (1962)
- The Children of Men (1992)
- The Private Patient (2008)
- The Murder Room (2003)
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