P. D. James
P. D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL, known as P. D. James, was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 August 1920
father equality skills
[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.
personality doe affinity
Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.
skulls skins facts
I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.
charity dull helping
we live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving ...