Bio of agatha christie

I&#;m much more likely to find myself browsing the fiction sections at any bookshop or library, but when I was gifted Lucy Worsley&#;s Agatha Christie biography for my birthday, I knew I&#;d be packing it for my summer holiday reading.

I&#;ve always enjoyed Worsley&#;s historical documentaries, so an entire book by her focused on the life and work of the Queen of Crime… well, that was a real treat! I even found myself slowing right down while reading so I could hear Worsley&#;s voice in my head, which only added to the enjoyment.

The biography covers her entire life, focusing not just on Christie herself, but the people and society around her. We explore her family and early life; her marriages and work during the wars; the creation of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple; her thrillers and writing as Mary Westmacott; her mysterious disappearance in ; her travels and her interest in archaeology; her many houses and tax dramas; her relationships with her daughter, grandson, agents, publishers, and the public; her work as a playwright; and everything else in between.

Worsley cleverly weaves the story of this fascinating woman&#;s life, interspersing details with anecdotes and brief excerpts from her correspondence. You can&#;t help but be drawn in!

This biography was of particular interest considering much of what Christie established or helped to popularise is in use in my own fiction and that of my contemporaries. An unassuming sleuth traipsing about town, putting the clues together to reveal whodunit – it&#;s the kind of story that&#;s been told so many times before, and is sure to continue. Why? Because they&#;re just so much fun to read!

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English mystery and detective writer (–)

This article is about the English author. For other uses, see Agatha Christie (disambiguation).

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née&#;Miller; 15&#;September &#;– 12&#;January ) was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime"—a nickname now trademarked by her estate—or the "Queen of Mystery". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In , she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. She is the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.

Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon, and was largely home-schooled. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed in when The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring detective Hercule Poirot, was published. Her first husband was Archibald Christie; they married in and had one child before divorcing in Following the breakdown of her marriage and the death of her mother in , she made international headlines by going missing for eleven days. During both World Wars, she served in hospital dispensaries, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the poisons that featured in many of her novels, short stories, and plays. Following her marriage to archaeologistMax Mallowan in , she spent several months each year on digs in the Middle East and used her first-hand knowledge of this profession in her fiction.

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Agatha Christie (–) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. She is also the most translated individual author in the world with her books having been translated into more than languages. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others, even though she thought the character to be "rather insufferable". Following the publication of the novel Curtain, Poirot's obituary appeared on the front page of The New York Times.

She married Archibald Christie in December , but the couple divorced in After he was sent to the Western Front in the First World War, she worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and in the chemist dispensary, giving her a working background knowledge of medicines and poisons. Christie's writing career began during the war, after she was challenged by her sister to write a detective story; she produced The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was turned down by two publishers before being published in Following the limited success of the novel, she continued to write and steadily built up a fan base. She went on to write over a hundred works, including further novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and two autobiographies. She also wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.

One of Christie's plays, The Mousetrap, opened in West End theatre in , and ran continuously until 16 March , when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued during the COVID pandemic. It then re-opened on 17 May In , the London run