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Ruth Rendell (Barbara Vine)
Life Time
17 February 1930 - 2 May 2015
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Ruth Greizmann (later Ruth Rendell) was born on 17 February 1930 in London. She attended Loughton High School in Essex, then worked as a newspaper reporter and junior editor in East Essex from 1948 to 1952. She married Donald Rendell in 1950, then divorced him and married him again in 1977. She has a son and two grandchildren. Since the publication of her first novel (With Love to Death, Dong, 1964), she has become one of the largest and most respected British detective authors worldwide. She also
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Ruth Greizmann (later Ruth Rendell) was born on 17 February 1930 in London. She attended Loughton High School in Essex, then worked as a newspaper reporter and junior editor in East Essex from 1948 to 1952. She married Donald Rendell in 1950, then divorced him and married him again in 1977. She has a son and two grandchildren.
Since the publication of her first novel (With Love to Death, Dong, 1964), she has become one of the largest and most respected British detective authors worldwide. She also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Ruth Rendell (under his own name or pseudonym) has won numerous awards, including the Association of Detective Writers (1976, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1991), the British National Book Award of the Arts Council (1980), the Detective Writers of America Award (1987) and the Sunday Times Literary Award (1990). In 1997, she became a life peer.
The novels by Ruth Randell and Barbara Vine have been translated into 25 languages and have been published in millions worldwide.