(Sorry, I needed to publish it again because the first time around I've published it too soon, so this is the end version)Ruth Barbara Rendell was born on seventh February 1930 in London to a family of teachers.
After high school she worked as a journalist for Essex newspapers. In 1964 her first mystery novel featuring the enduring Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford "From Doon With Death" was published.
Parallely, she started to write her psychological crime novels, exploring the dark sides of the human nature, like in the novel "Live Flesh"which was adapted for film by Pedro Almodovar.
Her third strand of writing is published under the pseudonym Barabara Vine. The style of these novels is akin to her psychological crime novels yet barely any crime is committed in them.
Ruth Rendell is credited for her elegant writing style, her sharp insights into the human mind and her convincing plots. She is believed to have upgraded the traditional whodunnit into a why dunnit. Several of her works were adapted for film and television. Since she has started writing in the 1960s, she has won innumerable awards like the Sunday Times Literary Award.
Apart from being a prodigious writer, she has also been a member of the House of Lords as a life peer, who is campaining against slavery, torture and female genital mutilation, since 1997.
My source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Rendell (biography and bibliography)
Other absorbing sites on Ruth Rendell:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/04/11/barendell11.xml&page=7
(a first-class transcript of an interview with the strict vegeterian Ruth Rendell)
http://wiredforbooks.org/ruthrendell/
(an compelling audio interview with Ruth Rendell about her writing on CBS Radio, New York)
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