P. D. James

Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.

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• I don't think writers choose their genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of a wish to create order out of disorder. The liking of pattern.
  • Interview with Jake Kerridge, Sep 2009^{[specific citation needed]}