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ELLIS
PETERS
(1913-1995) (Pseudonym of Edith Pargeter, aka Jolyon Carr) |
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Categories: Historical, Whodunit, UK Police Procedural Links |
 Born
in Horsehay in Shropshire on September 28 1913, Edith Pargeter went
to Coalbrookdale High School. Before World War II she worked as a chemist's
assistant and from 1940 was a teleprinter operator in Liverpool for
the Royal Navy and for this was awarded the British Empire Medal. By
then she had written a number of novels. In 1947 Pargeter went with
her brother Ellis to a young workers summer school in Czechoslovakia
and fell in love with the place. She taught herself Czech and translated
many of their major literary works. She was awarded the Czechoslovak
Society for International Relations Gold Medal in 1968. Her mystery
writing began, with the exception of a couple of novels as Jolyon Carr,
in 1951 with Fallen into the
Pit, the first of the Felse Family series, and used her pseudonym
Ellis Peters for the first time. The second book in the series, Death
and the Joyful Woman (1962), won the Edgar
Award. In 1977, with A Morbid
Taste for Bones, enter one of the most famous medieval sleuths of
all times: Brother Cadfael. This series
gave her a deserved fame leaving an imprint in the history of literature.
Monk's Hood won the Silver
Dagger in 1980 and she was awarded the Diamond
Dagger in 1993. Pargeter also received an OBE. She died in 1995. |
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