Reginald Hill(1936)

Reginald Hill was born in Hartlepool, England in 1936 and was brought up in Cumbria, where he has returned after many years spent in Yorkshire. He earned a BA from Oxford and taught at secondary school and college level before he decided to take up writing full-time in 1980. He writes historical adventures under the pseudonym Charles Underhill, science fiction as Dick Morland, and mystery and adventure as Patrick Ruell. However, it is as Reginald Hill, creator of brash Yorkshire policeman Andy Dalziel, that he is best known. He has received the Golden Dagger Award for the Dalziel and Pascoe books, which have also been turned into a successful TV series, and has been given Britain’s most prestigious mystery award - the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement. On Beulah Height was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book in 1998

 

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