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Portrait of Ruth Rendell Photo: Jane Mingay / AP Photo/TT (2005)

Rendell, Ruth

Country/Region:
United Kingdom
Born:
February 17, 1930
Dead:
May 2, 2015
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature, Children's literature
The British crime writer Ruth Rendell was born in London as Ruth Barbara Graseman. Her mother was of Scandinavian origin and her father a former shipyard worker in Plymouth who was able to train as a technology and mathematics teacher as an adult. Ruth Rendell attended the County High School for Girls in Loughton, Essex. She was a feature writer and deputy editor at a number of local newspapers between 1948 and 1952. In 1950, she married Donald Rendell, a journalist who later became a parliamentary reporter for the Daily Mail.

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