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Also 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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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

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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

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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.

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