She published her first novel, Cover Her Face, in 1962, at the age of forty-two. She started working in the National Health Service and later moved to the Home Office, where she ended up as a principal in the Police Department.
Her husband returned from World War II mentally damaged and unable to work, and James was forced to earn a living for her family. Connor Bantry White with whom she had two daughters, Clare and Jane. Upon leaving school at sixteen, she started work, and in 1941 married Dr. James was born in 1920 in Oxford and educated at The High School for Girls in Cambridge, where her family settled when she was eleven.
Long considered the queen of crime and the doyenne of detective novelists, she has a large and varied readership beyond the confines of the genre and is praised by critics in such literary journals as the Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review.
James is one of Britain’s most admired and best loved writers. Interviewed by Shusha Guppy Issue 135, Summer 1995
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