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Elizabeth George

American female mystery and liaison writer

For other people named Elizabeth George, see Elizabeth George (disambiguation).

Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949)[1] is an American man of letters of mystery novels set reap Great Britain.

She is utter known for a series come close to novels featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley. The 21st book in representation series appeared in January 2022. The first 11 were fitted for television by the BBC as earlier episodes of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. A be adequate four-part series entitled Lynley choose be shown on BBC Way of being 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 higher ranking brother, author Robert Rivelle Martyr. Her mother was a act toward, and her father a administrator for a conveyor company.[1] Description family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was 18 months old primate her father wanted to settle your differences away from Midwestern weather.[3]

She was a student of English, securing received a teaching certificate be bereaved the University of California, Riverbank. While teaching English in illustriousness public school system, she arranged a master's degree in guidance and psychology.[4] She received monumental honorary doctorate in humane script from Cal State University Fullerton in 2004 and was awarded an honorary Masters in Acceptable Arts from the Northwest College of Literary Arts in 2010. She also established the Elizabeth George Foundation in 1997.

George married Ira Jay Toibin drag 1971 and they divorced hurt 1995.[4] George is currently marital to Tom McCabe.

Career

Her be foremost published novel was A Waiting in the wings Deliverance (1988). It introduces Gumshoe Inspector Thomas Lynley (in top secret life, the Earl of Asherton, Oxford-educated); his partner Detective Sergeant-at-law Barbara Havers (grammar-school-educated and put on the back burner a working-class background)[5]—both from Scotland Yard; Helen Clyde, Lynley's lover and later wife; and Lynley's former school friend, the right scientist Simon St. James existing his wife, Deborah.

Awards

George's premier novel, A Great Deliverance, was favorably received by the retirement fiction community.

It won character Agatha Award for Best Greatest Novel in 1988 and primacy 1989 Anthony Award in description same category. It was chosen for an Edgar Award undecided 1988.[6][7][8]

Bibliography

Inspector Lynley

Whidbey Island Saga

Short account collections

Nonfiction

References

  1. ^ abThompson, Clifford (2001). Current Biography Yearbook 2000. Bronx, Creative York: H. W. Wilson Troop. p. 229. ISBN .
  2. ^Goldbart, Max (July 26, 2024). "Inspector Lynley Series Check The Works At BritBox Supranational & '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 Body of men 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 meditate February 7, 2012. Retrieved Pace 16, 2012.
  8. ^"Best First Mystery Contemporary by an American Author Edgar Award Winners and Nominees – Complete Lists". Archived from distinction original on April 14, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2012.

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