Rendell was vegetarian who was described as living mostly on fruit. In August 2014, Rendell was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. She introduced into the Lords the bill that would later become the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (the intent was to prevent the practice). In 1998 Rendell was named on a list of the party's biggest private financial donors. She sat in the House of Lords for the Labour Party. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1996 Birthday Honours and a life peer as Baroness Rendell of Babergh, of Aldeburgh in the County of Suffolk, on 24 October 1997. She lived in the villages of Polstead and later Groton, both east of Sudbury. She made the county of Suffolk her home for many years, using the settings in several of her novels. Don Rendell died in 1999 from prostate cancer. The couple divorced in 1975 but remarried two years later.

They married when she was 20, and in 1953 had a son, Simon, now a psychiatric social worker who lives in the U.S. Rendell met her husband Don Rendell when she was working as a newswriter. However, she was forced to resign after filing a story about a local sports club dinner she hadn't attended and failing to report that the after-dinner speaker had died midway through the speech. Rendell was educated at the County High School for Girls in Loughton, Essex, the town to which the family moved during her childhood.Īfter high school, she became a feature writer for her local Essex paper, the Chigwell Times. As a result of spending Christmas and other holidays in Scandinavia, Rendell learned Swedish and Danish. Her mother, Ebba Kruse, was born in Sweden to Danish parents and brought up in Denmark her father, Arthur Grasemann, was English. Rendell was born as Ruth Barbara Grasemann in 1930, in South Woodford, Essex (now Greater London). This theme was developed further in a third series of novels, published under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. A second string of works was a series of unrelated crime novels that explored the psychological background of criminals and their victims. Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford.

Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE ( née Grasemann 17 February 1930 – ) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.

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