Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English writer. She is best known for her detective novels, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world’s longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which was performed in the West End from 1952 to 2020. In 1971, she was made a Dame for her contributions to literature.
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English writer. She is best known for her detective novels, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world’s longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which was performed in the West End from 1952 to 2020. In 1971, she was made a Dame for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, having sold more than two billion copies. She was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon, and was largely home-schooled. Her first husband was Archibald Christie; they married in 1914 and had one child before divorcing in 1928. During both World Wars, she served in hospital dispensaries, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the poisons which featured in many of her novels, short stories, and plays. She spent several months each year on digs in the Middle East and used her first-hand knowledge of his profession in her fiction. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author. Most of Christie’s books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games, and graphic novels. More than thirty feature films are based on her work. In September 2015, And Then There Were None was named the \”World’s Favourite Christie\” in a vote sponsored by the author’s estate. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever by 600 professional novelists of the Crime Writers’ Association.
Christie’s stage play holds the world record for the longest initial run. It opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on 25 November 1952, and by September 2018 there had been more than 27,500 performances. In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award for best play, Witness for the Prosecution, which she also wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Her novels have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Spanish. She died in a nursing home in Dorset, England, in 2007, aged 98. She had a son, Fred Miller, with her second husband, the archaeologist Max Mallowa, who she married in 1930. The couple had three children, Margaret Frary, Louis Montant, and Mary Ann Boehmer, all of whom were born in the United States. Mary Ann’s maternal grandmother, Margaret Miller, was born in Ealing, and her paternal grandmother, Clarissa Margaret, was from Dublin. The Millers lived mainly in Devon, but often visited Paris, Pyrenees, Dinard, and Guernsey, and spent much of her time with her step-grandmother’s family in the Bayswater. She described her childhood as “very happy” and “very much older” than her older siblings. The last child, Margaret West married widowed dry goods merchant Nathaniel Frary Miller, a US citizen.
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