hi ken you wrote: >JAnet I don't know who P D James is, or was, >but I know I LIKE HIM! I can CHANGE THE WORLD! P.D. James a 'masterful' author of at least eleven detective crime novels won several writing awards including an O.B.E. in 1983 was born in Oxford in 1920 as of 1989 [the most recent book i have] james was described as living in london having served as a magistrate and is a governor of the bbc she is also a widow with two children and five grandchildren gotcha! your sib-sis janet [log in to unmask]