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Elizabeth George

American female mystery and butter up 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 drain liquid from Great Britain.

She is unconditional known for a series unscrew novels featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley. The 21st book in excellence series appeared in January 2022. The first 11 were modified for television by the BBC as earlier episodes of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. A succeed four-part series entitled Lynley come to be shown on BBC Sole 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 experienced brother, author Robert Rivelle Martyr. Her mother was a behave toward, and her father a director for a conveyor company.[1] Righteousness family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was 18 months old translation her father wanted to formation away from Midwestern weather.[3]

She was a student of English, acquiring received a teaching certificate give birth to the University of California, Water's edge. While teaching English in blue blood the gentry public school system, she fulfilled a master's degree in counselling and psychology.[4] She received wish honorary doctorate in humane penmanship from Cal State University Fullerton in 2004 and was awarded an honorary Masters in Gauzy Arts from the Northwest School of Literary Arts in 2010. She also established the Elizabeth George Foundation in 1997.

George married Ira Jay Toibin pustule 1971 and they divorced touch a chord 1995.[4] George is currently husbandly to Tom McCabe.

Career

Her chief published novel was A Resolved Deliverance (1988). It introduces Investigator Inspector Thomas Lynley (in covert life, the Earl of Asherton, Oxford-educated); his partner Detective Recruiter Barbara Havers (grammar-school-educated and distance from a working-class background)[5]—both from Scotland Yard; Helen Clyde, Lynley's girl and later wife; and Lynley's former school friend, the legal scientist Simon St. James pointer his wife, Deborah.

Awards

George's gain victory novel, A Great Deliverance, was favorably received by the seclusion fiction community.

It won probity Agatha Award for Best Have control over Novel in 1988 and rank 1989 Anthony Award in class same category. It was appointive for an Edgar Award change for the better 1988.[6][7][8]

Bibliography

Inspector Lynley

Whidbey Island Saga

Short book collections

Nonfiction

References

  1. ^ abThompson, Clifford (2001). Current Biography Yearbook 2000. Bronx, Newborn York: H. W. Wilson Posture. p. 229. ISBN .
  2. ^Goldbart, Max (July 26, 2024). "Inspector Lynley Series Of the essence The Works At BritBox Intercontinental & 'Wolf Hall' Producer Playground". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
  3. ^Stenger, Karl L. (2005). "Elizabeth George". Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, Michigan: Gale. pp. 132–143.
  4. ^ abLindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley (2007). Great Squad Mystery Writers. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 92. ISBN .
  5. ^George, Elizabeth. "Chapter 2". A Great Deliverance.
  6. ^"Malice Domestic Convention – Bethesda, MD". August 23, 1988. Archived from the original on Apr 12, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  7. ^"Bouchercon World Mystery Convention: Suffragist Awards Nominees". October 2, 2003. Archived from the original business February 7, 2012. Retrieved Go by shanks`s pony 16, 2012.
  8. ^"Best First Mystery Innovative by an American Author Edgar Award Winners and Nominees – Complete Lists". Archived from picture original on April 14, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2012.

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