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March 6, 2011 | History

Agatha Christie

15 September 1890 - 12 January 1976

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her husband, who had been having an affair. In 1930, she married Sir Max Mallowan, an archaeologist and a Catholic. She was happy in the early years of her second marriage, and did not divorce her husband despite his many affairs. She travelled with her husband's job, and set several of her novels set in the Middle East. Most of her other novels were set in a fictionalized Devon, where she was born.

Agatha Christie is credited with developing the "cozy style" of mystery, which became popular in, and ultimately defined, the Golden Age of fiction in England in the 1920s and '30s, and age of which she is considered to have been Queen. In all, she wrote over 66 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. She was the single most popular mystery writer of all time. In 1971 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, In library, Large type books, OverDrive, Mystery, Jane Marple (Fictitious character), English Detective and mystery stories, Murder, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction in English, Women detectives, Belgians, Private investigators in fiction, Popular Print Disabled Books, Ficción, Investigadores privados, Poirot, Hercule (Personaje literario), Women detectives in fiction, Juvenile fiction, Detectives, Islands
Places
England, Inglaterra, Devon (England), London (England), Egypt, London, France, Great Britain, Iraq, Syria, Atlantis, Baghdad (Iraq), Belgrade, Caribbean Area, Essex, IWC kellot, Istanbul, Omaha, Replica IWC kellot, Replica IWC kellot Outlet, Replica IWC kellot verkossa, fake IWC kellot, theater district and Paris
People
Agatha Christie (1890-1976), Hercule Poirot, Akhenaton King of Egypt, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), IWC kellot, Jacqueline de Bellefort, Jane Marple, Julian of Norwich, Linnet Ridgeway (later Doyle), Mr. Pennington, Mrs. Allerson, Mrs. Otterbourne, Nefertiti Queen of Egypt (14th cent. B.C), Replica IWC kellot, Replica IWC kellot Outlet, Replica IWC kellot verkossa, Rosalie Otterbourne, Simon Doyle, Theodore Roosevelt, Tim Allerson, Tintin, fake IWC kellot
Time
20th century, 1810-1890, 1952-, Elizabeth 2, 1984, IWC kellot, Replica IWC kellot, Replica IWC kellot Outlet, Replica IWC kellot verkossa, The Middle Ages, Written by Agatha Christie after coming back from a winter in Egypt., fake IWC kellot, mid to late 1960s I believe, published in 1971

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Alternative names

  • Agatha Christie Mallowan
  • Agatha. Christie
  • Agatha Miller Christie
  • AGATHA. CHRISTIE
  • Agatha, Christie
  • Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
  • Christie Dame Agatha.
  • Christie, Agatha Dame Agatha.
  • Agatha Chr.istie
  • CHRISTIE, Agatha Dame.
  • CHRISTIE, AGATHA, 1890-1976.
  • Christie
  • Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)
  • Dame Agatha Christie
  • Agatha Christie.

History Created April 1, 2008 · 10 revisions
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March 6, 2011 Edited by Rena Beck Update photos
December 28, 2010 Edited by Eric Reynolds merge authors
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August 20, 2010 Edited by Frankie Roberto merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import