P. D.James

P. D.James (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and politician. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring Adam Dalgliesh, the police commander and poet James was born in Oxford, the daughter of Sidney Victor James, a tax inspector, and his wife, Dorothy Mary James.[3] She was educated at the British School in Ludlow and Cambridge High School for Girls.[4] She had to leave school at the age of sixteen to work because her family did not have much money and her father did not believe in higher education for girls.[citation needed] She worked in a tax office in Ely for three years and later found a job as an assistant stage manager for the Festival Theatre in Cambridge. She married Ernest Connor Bantry White (called "Connor") an army doctor, on August 8, 1941. They had two daughters, Clare and Jane.