Elizabeth George
| Elizabeth George | |
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| Born | Susan Elizabeth George February 26, 1949 Warren, Ohio |
| Occupation | author |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | English-Italian |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | English Bachelor of Arts counseling and psychology Master's of Education |
| Alma mater | University of California, Riverside |
| Genres | mystery fiction detective fiction |
| Spouse(s) | Ira Jay Toibin (1971-1995) |
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Susan Elizabeth George (born 26 February 1949[1]) is an American author of mystery novels set in Great Britain.
Eleven of her novels featuring her lead character Inspector Lynley have been adapted for television by the BBC as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
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[edit] Biography
George was born in Warren, Ohio to Robert Edwin and Anne (née Rivelle) George, the second of two children (she has an older brother Robert "Rob" George).[1] Her mother was a nurse and her father a salesman for a conveyor company.[1] The family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was eighteen months old. Her father wanted to get away from the Midwestern weather and to get her mother away from her mother's large extended Italian family.[2]
She was a student of English, receiving a teaching certificate from the University of California, Riverside. While teaching English in the public school system, she completed a master's degree in counseling and psychology.[3]
George married Ira Jay Toibin in 1971 and they divorced in 1995.[3]
[edit] Author
Her first published novel was A Great Deliverance in 1988, featuring Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley (aka Lord Asherton of noble birth) from Scotland Yard; Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley's partner, grammar-school educated but from a very working-class background; Lady Helen Clyde, Lynley's girlfriend and later wife, of aristocratic birth as well; and Lynley's friends Simon and Deborah St. James, an upper-class man and his wife, daughter of his family's valet/butler.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Fiction: Inspector Lynley
- 1988: A Great Deliverance (ISBN 9780553278026)
- 1989: Payment in Blood (ISBN 9780553284362)
- 1990: Well-Schooled in Murder (ISBN 9780553287349)
- 1991: A Suitable Vengeance (ISBN 9780553295603)
- 1992: For the Sake of Elena (ISBN 9780553561272)
- 1992: Missing Joseph (ISBN 9780553566048)
- 1993: Playing for the Ashes (ISBN 9780553092622)
- 1996: In the Presence of the Enemy (ISBN 9780553092653)
- 1997: Deception on His Mind (ISBN 9780553102345)
- 1999: In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (ISBN 9780553102352)
- 2001: A Traitor to Memory(ISBN 9780553801279)
- 2003: A Place of Hiding (ISBN 9780553801309)
- 2005: With No One as Witness (ISBN 9780060798451)
- 2006: What Came Before He Shot Her (ISBN 9780060545628)
- 2008: Careless in Red (ISBN 9780061160875)
- 2010: This Body of Death (ISBN 9780061160882)
- 2012: Believing The Lie (ISBN 9780525952589)
[edit] Fiction-other
- 2001: The Evidence Exposed (ISBN 9780340750636; Short story collection UK)
- 2002: I, Richard (ISBN 9780553802580; short story collection
- 2004: A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women editor (ISBN 9780060588212)
[edit] Non-fiction
- 2004: Write Away (ISBN 9780060560423)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Thompson, Clifford (2001). Current Biography Yearbook 2000. Bronx, New York: H. W. Wilson Company. p. 229. ISBN 978-0824210045.
- ^ Stenger, Karl L. (2005). "Elizabeth George". Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, Michigan: Gale. pp. 132–143.
- ^ a b Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley (2007). Great Women Mystery Writers. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 92. ISBN 978-0313334283.
