She amassed a great deal of knowledge about sicknesses and poisons such as strychnine and ricin that she often featured in her novels. Their bewilderment and personal sorrows affected her deeply. During WWI Agatha worked as a nurse, tending to the ill and injured, many who were displaced Belgians. On 24 December 1914, at the age of twenty-four, Christie married Royal Flying Corps pilot Archie Christie, with whom she would have a daughter, Rosalind (1919-2004). Having long been encouraged by her mother to write, Agatha continued to write there while also studying music (which became a life-long love), singing, and piano. While she received no formal education, her mother and then governesses taught her at home to read before she entered finishing school in Paris, France in 1906. The family attended All Saint’s Church where Agatha was baptised. The shy and sensitive Agatha, who was very close to her mother, had an older sister, Margaret ‘Madge’ (1879-1950) and brother Louis ‘Monty’ Montant (1880-1929). As well as a writer of crime mysteries, she also read stories for BBC Radio, wrote non-fiction, romances, plays, and poetry.īorn in the family home Ashfield in Torquay, Devon, England on 15 September 1890, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was the youngest of the three children born to Clarissa ‘Clara’ Margaret née Boehmer (1855-1926) and American Frederick Alvah Miller (1846-1901), who died when Agatha was just ten years old. They have been translated to dozens of languages, inspired numerous other authors’ works, and have been adapted to radio, the stage, and film. 10) to her last, Sleeping Murder (1976), Christie enjoyed a career that spanned over fifty years and her works have now sold into the billions. It is ‘up to them’-as you say over here.” (Poirot, Ch.
From her first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) “This affair must all be unravelled from within.” He tapped his forehead. Some of Christie’s best-known works are The ABC Murders (1936), And Then There Were None (1945), The Mousetrap (longest ever running stage play in London, first performed in 1952), Hickory Dickory Dock (1955), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Death on the Nile (1978). The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( 1920)Īka A Holiday for Murder / Murder for ChristmasĪka An Overdose of Death / The Patriotic Murdersģ3.“The young people think the old people are fools, but the old people know the young people are fools.”
As well, she wrote four non-fiction books including an autobiography and an entertaining account of the many expeditions she shared with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan.ġ. Both have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies.Īgatha Christie also wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Two of the characters she created, the brilliant little Belgian Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world-famous detectives. Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 80 novels and short story collections, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.
Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer.
0 kommentar(er)
