PD James - a life in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2014/nov/27/pd-james-a-life-in-pictures-adam-dalgliesh
The writer PD James on the beach near her holiday home in Southwold, Suffolk, in 1980.
Photograph: Graham Harrison/REX
James working at her London home in 1980.
Photograph: Graham Harrison/REX
James at home in London in 2011 - the year she revealed to her fans that she would write no more Dalgliesh novels.
Photograph: REX
James in 1985, the year the mini-series of Cover Her Face and The Black Tower made Adam Dalgliesh a household name.
Photograph: Eddie Wing/REX
James with the actor Roy Marsden, who played Adam Dalgliesh for 15 years.
Photograph: ITV/REX
James in cutthroat mood at the 1987 release of her novel Un certain gout pour la mort (A Taste for Death) in Paris.
Photograph: Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Corbis
James with one of her Burmese cats at her home in London, 1988. ‘I want my cats affectionate and sloppy,’ she told an interviewer.
Photograph: Mark Richards/REX
Jane Bown photographed James in 1994, the year she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hertfordshire - the second of seven honorary doctorates the author received.
Photograph: Jane Bown/For The Observer
‘I started out as more of a cult writer,’ James told Emma Brockes, in 2001. ‘The one that broke through here was Shroud For A Nightingale. Then the huge international bestseller was Innocent Blood. At the beginning of the week I was relatively poor and at the end of the week I wasn’t.’
Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/for the Guardian
James with her sister in crime, Ruth Rendell, at the Cheltenham literature festival in 2009.
Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/REX
James at the Oxford literary festival in 2012.
Photograph: Geraint Lewis/REX
James at the Quais du Polar festival of crime fiction and thrillers in Lyon, France, in 2013.
Photograph: Benjamin Larderet/Demotix/Corbis
James cutting the ribbon at the opening in 2014 of the new crime department at Foyles bookshop in Charing Cross Road, London.
Photograph: Malcolm Park/Demotix/Corbis
The writer PD James on the beach near her holiday home in Southwold, Suffolk, in 1980.
Photograph: Graham Harrison/REX
James working at her London home in 1980.
Photograph: Graham Harrison/REX
James at home in London in 2011 - the year she revealed to her fans that she would write no more Dalgliesh novels.
Photograph: REX
James in 1985, the year the mini-series of Cover Her Face and The Black Tower made Adam Dalgliesh a household name.
Photograph: Eddie Wing/REX
James with the actor Roy Marsden, who played Adam Dalgliesh for 15 years.
Photograph: ITV/REX
James in cutthroat mood at the 1987 release of her novel Un certain gout pour la mort (A Taste for Death) in Paris.
Photograph: Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Corbis
James with one of her Burmese cats at her home in London, 1988. ‘I want my cats affectionate and sloppy,’ she told an interviewer.
Photograph: Mark Richards/REX
Jane Bown photographed James in 1994, the year she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hertfordshire - the second of seven honorary doctorates the author received.
Photograph: Jane Bown/For The Observer
‘I started out as more of a cult writer,’ James told Emma Brockes, in 2001. ‘The one that broke through here was Shroud For A Nightingale. Then the huge international bestseller was Innocent Blood. At the beginning of the week I was relatively poor and at the end of the week I wasn’t.’
Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/for the Guardian
James with her sister in crime, Ruth Rendell, at the Cheltenham literature festival in 2009.
Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/REX
James at the Oxford literary festival in 2012.
Photograph: Geraint Lewis/REX
James at the Quais du Polar festival of crime fiction and thrillers in Lyon, France, in 2013.
Photograph: Benjamin Larderet/Demotix/Corbis
James cutting the ribbon at the opening in 2014 of the new crime department at Foyles bookshop in Charing Cross Road, London.
Photograph: Malcolm Park/Demotix/Corbis