Elizabeth George
200 workspublishing since 2003
Elizabeth George is an American crime novelist, born on 26 February 1949 in Warren, Ohio, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She taught high-school English in Orange County, California, for twelve years before publishing her first novel, “A Great Deliverance”, in 1988; it won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel, the Anthony Award for Best Debut Novel and France's Grand Prix de littérature policière. The book opened the Inspector Lynley series, set in England around Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, which now runs to some twenty novels. She also wrote the four-book Whidbey Island young-adult saga (2012-2016). The Lynley novels were adapted by the BBC as “The Inspector Lynley Mysteries” (2001-2008).
