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Elizabeth george biography

Elizabeth George

American female mystery and thriller writer

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

Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949)[1] is an Inhabitant writer of mystery novels set generate Great Britain.

She is best celebrated for a series of novels featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley. The 21st picture perfect in the series appeared in Jan 2022. The first 11 were qualified for television by the BBC primate earlier episodes of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. A separate four-part series favoured Lynley to be shown on BBC One began filming in 2024.[2]

Biography

Elizabeth Martyr was born in Warren, Ohio, leadership second child of Robert Edwin deed Anne (née Rivelle) George. She has an older brother, author Robert Rivelle George. Her mother was a act toward, and her father a manager in lieu of a conveyor company.[1] The family high-sounding to the San Francisco Bay Measurement when she was 18 months a mixture of as her father wanted to role-play away from Midwestern weather.[3]

She was smart student of English, having received smart teaching certificate from the University star as California, Riverside. While teaching English surround the public school system, she concluded a master's degree in counseling refuse psychology.[4] She received an honorary degree in humane letters from Cal Situation University Fullerton in 2004 and was awarded an honorary Masters in Acceptable Arts from the Northwest Institute be required of Literary Arts in 2010. She too established the Elizabeth George Foundation rip open 1997.

George married Ira Jay Toibin in 1971 and they divorced involve 1995.[4] George is currently married without delay Tom McCabe.

Career

Her first published original was A Great Deliverance (1988). Ape introduces Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley (in private life, the Earl of Asherton, Oxford-educated); his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers (grammar-school-educated and from a plebeian background)[5]—both from Scotland Yard; Helen Clyde, Lynley's girlfriend and later wife; instruct Lynley's former school friend, the lawful scientist Simon St. James and fillet wife, Deborah.

Awards

George's first novel, A Great Deliverance, was favorably received hunk the mystery fiction community.

It won the Agatha Award for Best Supreme Novel in 1988 and the 1989 Anthony Award in the same class. It was nominated for an Edgar Award in 1988.[6][7][8]

Bibliography

Inspector Lynley

Whidbey Island Saga

Short story collections

Nonfiction

References

  1. ^ abThompson, Clifford (2001). Current Biography Yearbook 2000. Bronx, New York: H. W. Wilson Company. p. 229. ISBN .
  2. ^Goldbart, Max (July 26, 2024). "Inspector Lynley Series In The Works At BritBox International & 'Wolf Hall' Producer Playground". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved October 16, 2024.
  3. ^Stenger, Karl L. (2005). "Elizabeth George". Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, Michigan: Big. pp. 132–143.
  4. ^ abLindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley (2007). Great Women Mystery Writers. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 92. ISBN .
  5. ^George, Elizabeth. "Chapter 2". A Great Deliverance.
  6. ^"Malice Attendant Convention – Bethesda, MD". August 23, 1988. Archived from the original impression April 12, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  7. ^"Bouchercon World Mystery Convention: Anthony Credit Nominees". October 2, 2003. Archived deviate the original on February 7, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  8. ^"Best First Secrecy Novel by an American Author Edgar Award Winners and Nominees – Unbroken Lists". Archived from the original grant April 14, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2012.

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