Vine, Barbara, 1930-2015 (Personal Name)

Her The house of stairs, 1989: CIP t.p. (Barbara Vine) publr. info. (pseud. of Ruth Rendell; res., London, Eng.)

New York times (online), viewed May 4, 2015 (in obituary published May 2: Ruth Rendell; b. Ruth Barbara Grasemann, Feb. 17, 1930; m. Don Rendell (d. 1999); d. Saturday [May 2, 2015], London, aged 85; prolific and hugely popular writer of intricately plotted mystery novels that combined psychological insight, social conscience, and, not infrequently, teeth-chattering terror; also wrote under the name Barbara Vine; made a Labour Party life peer (Baroness Rendell of Babergh) in 1997)