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Biographie de Barbara Vine

Barbara Vine is Ruth Rendell, the bestselling crime novelist, She bas written many novels, including The Lake of Darkness, The Killing Doll, The Tree of Hands, Live Flesh, Heartstones and The Veiled One. As Barbara Vine she is the author of A Dark-Adapted Eye, which received huge critical acclaim and won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award; A Fatal Inversion, winner of the 1987 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award; The House of Stairs, winner of the Angel Award for Fiction; Gallowglass; King Solomon's Carpet, winner of the 1991 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award; Asta's Book, shortlisted for the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award; No Night is Too Long; The Brimstone Wedding; and The Chimney Sweeper's Boy. All of these are published in Penguin. Gallowglass, A Dark-Adapted Eye and A Fatal Inversion have all been the basis of successful BBC television series. Ruth Rendell is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1991 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger for a lifetime's achievement in crime writing. In 1997 she was created a life peer and rock the title Baroness Rendell of Babergh.