Dame Agatha Christie
| Dame Agatha Christie Lady Mallowan DBE |
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| Born | Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller 15 September 1890 Torquay, Devon, England |
| Died | 12 January 1976 (aged 85) Winterbrook, Oxfordshire, England |
| Resting place | Church of St Mary, Cholsey, Oxfordshire, England |
| Pen name | Mary Westmacott Agatha Christie |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet |
| Genre | Murder mystery, thriller, crime fiction, detective, romance |
| Literary movement | Golden Age of Detective Fiction |
| Notable works | Creation of characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Death on the Nile, The Murder at the Vicarage, Partners In Crime, The ABC Murders, And Then There Were None, The Mousetrap |
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Archibald Christie (m. 1914; div. 1928) Sir Max Mallowan (m. 1930–76; her death) |
| Children | Rosalind Hicks (1919–2004) |
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. In 1971 she was made a Dame for her contribution to literature.
Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. She served in a hospital during the First World War before marrying and starting a family in London. She was initially an unsuccessful writer, but The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in 1920 featuring Hercule Poirot.
Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare's works and the Bible. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author – having been translated into at least 103 languages.And Then There Were None is Christie's best-selling novel, with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the best-selling books of all time.
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