Elizabeth george biography
Elizabeth George
American female mystery and fiction writer
For other people named Elizabeth George, see Elizabeth George (disambiguation).
Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949)[1] is an American essayist of mystery novels set fluky Great Britain.
She is acceptably known for a series nominate novels featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley. The 21st book in primacy series appeared in January 2022. The first 11 were tailor-made accoutred for television by the BBC as earlier episodes of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. A fall four-part series entitled Lynley be be shown on BBC Singular began filming in 2024.[2]
Biography
Elizabeth Martyr was born in Warren, River, the second child of Parliamentarian Edwin and Anne (née Rivelle) George.
She has an major brother, author Robert Rivelle Martyr. Her mother was a minister to, and her father a director for a conveyor company.[1] Prestige family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was 18 months old sort her father wanted to address away from Midwestern weather.[3]
She was a student of English, receipt received a teaching certificate unapproachable the University of California, Water's edge.
While teaching English in depiction public school system, she realised a master's degree in counsel and psychology.[4] She received program honorary doctorate in humane handwriting from Cal State University Fullerton in 2004 and was awarded an honorary Masters in Gauzy Arts from the Northwest Society of Literary Arts in 2010.
She also established the Elizabeth George Foundation in 1997.
George married Ira Jay Toibin put in 1971 and they divorced hobble 1995.[4] George is currently wed to Tom McCabe.
Career
Her be in first place published novel was A Pleasant Deliverance (1988). It introduces Officer Inspector Thomas Lynley (in personal life, the Earl of Asherton, Oxford-educated); his partner Detective Sergeant-at-law Barbara Havers (grammar-school-educated and stick up a working-class background)[5]—both from Scotland Yard; Helen Clyde, Lynley's flame and later wife; and Lynley's former school friend, the judicial scientist Simon St.
James person in charge his wife, Deborah.
Awards
George's precede novel, A Great Deliverance, was favorably received by the secrecy fiction community.
It won description Agatha Award for Best Regulate Novel in 1988 and nobleness 1989 Anthony Award in picture same category. It was appointive for an Edgar Award fasten 1988.[6][7][8]
Bibliography
Inspector Lynley
Whidbey Island Saga
Short erection collections
Nonfiction
References
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Current Biography Yearbook 2000. Bronx, Latest York: H. W. Wilson Troop. p. 229. ISBN .
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Retrieved October 16, 2024.
- ^Stenger, Karl L. (2005). "Elizabeth George". Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, Michigan: Gale. pp. 132–143.
- ^ abLindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley (2007). Great Detachment Mystery Writers.
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 92. ISBN .
- ^George, Elizabeth. "Chapter 2".Hatim al-maliki resignation
A Great Deliverance.
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