Wednesday, May 7, 2008

About The Author - Daniel

Agatha Christie was born September 15, 1890. She wrote many novels, short stories and plays. She also went by the alias Mary Westmacott when she wrote romances, but is best remembered for the 80 detective novels she wrote. She is considered the best selling writer of books by the Guinness Book of World Records, and the only book that out sold hers is the Bible.

Although Agatha was born to an American father she never claimed United States citizenship. She had one sister and one brother. Her father died when she was eleven years old and her mother taught her at home encouraging her to write at a very young age. Her first novel was published in 1920 during her marriage to Colonel Archibald Christie called The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

During World War 1 she worked at a hospital and then worked in a pharmacy. It is from those two jobs that she derives her use of poison in a lot of her books including And Then There Were None.

Her second marriage was to archeologist Sir Max Mallowan. It is with him that she traveled to many places in the Middle East which is used as the milieu in many novels.

Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976 at age 85, from natural causes.

Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie

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