What is P. D. James?
{{Infobox writer | name = <small>[[Right Honourable|The Right Honourable]]</small><br>The Baroness James of Holland Park<br><small>[[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]]</small> | image = PD James Cologne.JPG | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Phyllis Dorothy James | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1920|8|3}} | birth_place = [[Oxford]], [[England]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2014|11|27|1920|8|3}} | death_place = Oxford, England | occupation = Novelist | nationality = British | spouse = Dr. Ernest Connor Bantry White, an Army doctor (m. 1941–1964, his death) | children = 2 daughters, Claire, (b. 1942) and Jane, (b. 1944) | period = | genre = [[Crime fiction]]<br>[[Thriller (genre)|Thriller]]<br>[[Dystopian novel|Dystopian fiction]] | subject = | movement = | notableworks = }} '''Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park''', [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]], [[Royal Society of Arts|FRSA]], [[Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]] (3 August 1920 &ndash; 27 November 2014) was an [[English people|English]] writer of [[crime fiction]]. She was commonly known as '''P.&nbsp;D. James''', which was the name her books are published under. She was most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faber.co.uk/author/p-d-james/ |title=Faber & Faber : P. D. James |publisher=Faber.co.uk |date=22 September 2008 |accessdate=20 May 2010}}</ref> James was a [[life peer]] in the [[House of Lords]].<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/directories/house_of_lords_information_office/alphabetical_list_of_members.cfm#J UK Parliament – Alphabetical List of Members] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212094207/http://www.parliament.uk/directories/house_of_lords_information_office/alphabetical_list_of_members.cfm#J |date=2008-12-12 }}.</ref> James died peacefully at her home in Oxford on 27 November 2014, aged 94.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/n