Elizabeth George Biography

Elizabeth George is the New York Times and internationally best selling author of twenty British crime novels featuring Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his unconventional partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. Her crime novels have been translated into 30 languages and featured on television by the BBC. She is also the author of a young adult series set on the island where she lives in the state of Washington.
A longtime instructor of creative writing she has taught at colleges universities writers' retreats and conferences internationally. She most recently taught a live online creative writing class for Hedgebrook Women's Writers' Retreat on Whidbey Island. She is the recipient of the Anthony Award the Agatha Award France's Grand Prix di Literatture Policiere and Germany's MIMI. She has twice been nominated for an Edgar Award and she is the recipient of an honorary doctorate of humane letters from California State University Fullerton and an honorary MFA from Northwest Institute of Language Arts (Whidbey Island MFA Program).
She has also written the longtime best selling creative writing book Write Away has edited two volumes of short stories and is the executive chair of the Elizabeth George Foundation which makes grants to poets emerging playwrights and unpublished novelists.

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