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Biography
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Ruth Rendell
Real name: Ruth Barbara Rendell (née Grasemann), Baroness Rendell of Babergh
Effective period / Period of releases: 1985 - 2002
Ruth Rendell, CBE (born 17 February 1930, South Woodford, Essex, England - died 2 May 2015, London, England) was an English crime writer who also wrote under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1996 and a life peer as Baroness Rendell of Babergh, of Aldeburgh in the County of Suffolk, on 24 October 1997.