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Ruth Rendell
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ruth Grasemann, Barbara Vine, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, Ruth Barbara Grasemann, Ruth Barbara Rendell
British writer (1930-2015)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 17 February 1930
- Died
- 2 May 2015
- Works
- 502
Top works
- Country House Murders
- Der Herr des Moors
- Le-shaḳer ṿela-mut
- King Solomon's Carpet
- Crossing the Border
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Film & TV
Writing · South Woodford, Essex, England, UK
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford.
Known for
- This Morning — Self1988
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1930
- Active to
- 2015
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 259
- Total plays
- 6,195
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; born 17 February 1930), is an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell’s best-known creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, is the hero of many popular police stories, some of them successfully adapted for TV. But Rendell has also generated a separate brand of crime-fiction that explores deeply into the psychological background of criminals and their victims, many of them mentally afflicted or other
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,950x
- AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 23,205x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,903x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,984x
- Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine
· 2020 · cited 14,077x
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Key facts
- Born
- Ruth Barbara Grasemann , ( 1930-02-17 ) 17 February 1930, Woodford , Essex, England
- Died
- 2 May 2015 (2015-05-02) (aged 85), London, England
- Pen name
- Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Genre
- Psychological thriller murder mystery
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Encyclopedic overview
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford. A second string of works was a series of unrelated crime novels that explored the psychological background of criminals and their victims. This theme was developed further in a third series of novels, published under the pseudonym Barbara Vine.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ruth Rendell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.