What is Colin Dexter?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Colin Dexter | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|9|29|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Stamford, Lincolnshire|Stamford]], [[Lincolnshire]], [[England]], [[UK]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|3|21|1930|9|29|df=y}} | death_place = [[Oxford]], [[Oxfordshire]], England, UK | alma_mater = [[Christ's College, Cambridge]] | occupation = Novelist | genre = [[Crime fiction]] | movement = | website = |module = <center>{{Listen|embed=yes|filename=Colin Dexter BBC Radio4 Bookclub 5 Aug 2007 b007vd4k.flac|title=<center>Colin Dexter's voice</center>|type=speech|description=<center>[[:File:Colin Dexter BBC Radio4 Bookclub 5 Aug 2007 b007vd4k.flac|Recorded August 2007]] from the BBC Radio 4 programme ''[[Bookclub (radio)|Bookclub]]''</center>}}</center> }} '''Norman Colin Dexter''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]], (29 September 1930 &ndash; 21 March 2017) was an [[English people|English]] crime writer. He was known for his [[Inspector Morse]] novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as a television series from 1987 to 2000. In 2000 Dexter was appointed an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] for services to literature. In 2001 he was awarded the Freedom of the City of Oxford.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2719850/People-think-Im-cleverer-I-Morse-plots-Inspector-Morse-author-Colin-Dexter-gives-definitive-answers-probing-questions.html|title='People always think I'm cleverer than I am because of the Morse plots' Inspector Morse author Colin Dexter gives his definitive answers to our most probing questions|work=Mail Online|access-date=21 May 2015}}</ref> Dexter died in his sleep at his home in [[Oxford]] on 21 March 2017, aged 86.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39342698|publisher=[[BBC News]]|access-date=21 March 2017|title=Colin Dexter, creator of Inspector Morse, dies aged 86}}</ref> ==References== {{reflis