Ruth Rendell

RUTH RENDELL

Ruth Rendell is one of the most honored and critically acclaimed of modern crime writers. She alternates mysteries featuring Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford with other non-series psychological crime stories, both under her own name and as Barbara Vine. She was born in London and was educated in Essex where she worked from 1948 to 1952 as reporter and subeditor for newspapers. Rendell has won three Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America - two for short story (1975, 1984) and one writing as Barbara Vine for the novel A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986). She has also won a Silver Dagger (1985) for The Tree of Hands and three Gold Daggers (1976, 1986, and 1987) for A Demon in My View, Live Flesh and A Fatal Inversion from the British Crime Writers Association. She has recently been nominated peer in the House of Lords and is now Baroness Rendell of Babergh. She is married, has a son and two grandsons.