Dr Ruth Dudley Edwards

Career: teacher 1965-67, mktg exec Post Office 1970-74, principal DOI 1975-79, freelance writer 1979-, company historian The Economist 1982-2000, freelance journalist and broadcaster 1994-; memb Exec Ctee: Br Irish Assoc 1981-93, Crime Writers' Assoc 1995-98, Soc of Authors 1996-99; chm Br Assoc for Irish Studies 1986-93; Hon DLitt Queen's Univ Belfast

Books and Publications: An Atlas of Irish History (1973), Patrick Pearse: the triumph of failure (1977, Nat Univ of Ireland Historical Research Prize), James Connolly (1981), Corridors of Death (1981), Harold Macmillan: a life in pictures (1983), The Saint Valentine's Day Murders (1984), Victor Gollancz: a biography (1987, James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The School of English Murder (1990), Clubbed to Death (1992), The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist 1843-1993 (1993), The Best of Bagehot (1993), True Brits (1994), Matricide at St Martha's (1994), Ten Lords A-Leaping (1995), Murder in a Cathedral (1996), Publish and be Murdered (1998), The Faithful Tribe: an intimate portrait of the loyal institutions (1999), The Anglo-Irish Murders (2000), Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the glory days of Fleet Street (2003), Carnage on the Committee (2004), Murdering Americans (2007, CrimeFest Last Laugh Award 2008), Aftermath: the Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice (2009, Crime Writers' Assoc Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction)