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Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949)<ref name=CT-2001-p229>Template:Cite book</ref> is an American writer of mystery novels.

She is best known for a series of novels featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley. The 21st book in the series was published in January 2022. The first 11 were adapted for television by the BBC as earlier episodes of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. A separate four-part series entitled Lynley to be shown on BBC One began filming in 2024, starring Leo Suter and Sofia Barclay.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

BiographyEdit

Early lifeEdit

Elizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio, the second child of Robert Edwin and Anne (née Rivelle) George. She has an older brother, author Robert Rivelle George. Her mother was a nurse, and her father a manager for a conveyor company.<ref name=CT-2001-p229 /> The family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was 18 months old.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She has described the family as "quite poor" and with little formal education, but recounts that her mother gave her an old Remington typewriter, and she began writing at the age of 7.<ref name=":1" /> She says: "I have always felt compelled to write. When I began reading the Little Golden Books as a 7-year-old, I knew that I wanted to write one, too. I wrote tiny stories like that in the beginning."<ref name=":2" /> She names Anne of Green Gables as one of the literary influences of her childhood.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She studied at Foothill Community College (now Foothill College) in California, and at the University of California, Riverside, where she received a BA in 1970.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> While teaching English in the public school system, she completed a master's degree in counseling and psychology.<ref name=LindsayEB-p92>Template:Cite book</ref> She received an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Cal State University Fullerton in 2004<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was awarded an honorary Masters in Fine Arts from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts in 2010.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Literary careerEdit

George taught English in the public school system for 13 years, writing three crime novels before being accepted for publication.<ref name=":1" /> The critical and commercial success of her first published novel, A Great Deliverance (1988), allowed her to give up teaching and become a full-time writer.<ref name=":0" />

The novel introduces the upper-class Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard (in private life, the Earl of Asherton) and his working-class partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> When asked in interview why she chose to create a titled hero, she spoke of the freedom of being a debut novelist, saying: "I could do anything, you see, because when I started I never thought it would be published."<ref name=":1" />

Since 1988 George has published 20 more Inspector Lynley mysteries, four young adult novels in the Whidbey Island series, three collections of short stories and two self-help books for writers. She names the author John Fowles as her main literary influence.<ref name=":2" />

She established the Elizabeth George Foundation, a grant for unpublished and emerging writers, in 1997.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

George has taught creative writing seminars in the US, Canada and the UK.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

George married Ira Jay Toibin in 1971 and they divorced in 1995.<ref name="LindsayEB-p92" /> George is currently married to retired firefighter Tom McCabe.<ref name=":3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She has spoken of her struggle with depression,<ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref> saying: "Happiness is an inside job - it takes a long time to learn that."<ref name=":1" />

ReceptionEdit

George has spoken of being a great Anglophile since her first visit to Britain in 1966, and of watching UK TV shows and reading books by UK novelists to "pick up the syntax of British speech."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She has been praised for the authenticity of her portrayal of "the nuances, class system, language, humour and habits of the British,"<ref name=":3" /> although not all critics have been in agreement. The Times crime critic Marcel Berlins has described her as: "an exasperating writer, (who) insists on perpetuating a police procedure that hasn’t existed for decades, is not good on social mores and her dialogue often reveals a tin ear."<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Critics have commented adversely on the length and complexity of her novels<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> whilst acknowledging the satisfying nature of the read.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

AwardsEdit

A Great Deliverance: Winner: Agatha Award for Best First Novel (1988); 1989 Anthony Award for Best Debut Novel (1989); Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (France).<ref name=":1" /> Nominated: Edgar Award in 1988.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

BibliographyEdit

Inspector LynleyEdit

Whidbey Island SagaEdit

  • 2012: The Edge of Nowhere (The Edge of Nowhere: Saratoga Woods or The Edge of Nowhere 01: The Dog House) (Template:ISBN)
  • 2013: The Edge of the Water (The Edge of the Water: Saratoga Woods) (Template:ISBN)
  • 2015: The Edge of the Shadows (Template:ISBN)
  • 2016: The Edge of the Light (Template:ISBN)

Short story collectionsEdit

NonfictionEdit

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