Her first published novel was A Great Deliverance (1988). George is currently married to Tom McCabe. George married Ira Jay Toibin in 1971 and they divorced in 1995. She also established the Elizabeth George Foundation in 1997. She received an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Cal State University Fullerton in 2004 and was awarded an honorary Masters in Fine Arts from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts in 2010. While teaching English in the public school system, she completed a master's degree in counseling and psychology. She was a student of English, having received a teaching certificate from the University of California, Riverside. The family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was 18 months old as her father wanted to get away from Midwestern weather. Her mother was a nurse, and her father a manager for a conveyor company. She has an older brother, author Robert Rivelle George.

The first 11 were adapted for television by the BBC as earlier episodes of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.Įlizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio, the second child of Robert Edwin and Anne (née Rivelle) George. The 21st book in the series appeared in January 2022. She is best known for a series of novels featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley. Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949) is an American writer of mystery novels set in Great Britain.

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