Agatha Christie

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Aliases:
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie, Agatha Christie-Mallowan, Agathe Marie Clarissa Miller, and 64 others アガサ クリスチィ, אגתה כריסטי, Ajiasha Kelisidi, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, Агата Кристи, Agatha Kristi, 阿加莎 克里斯蒂, Agatha Clarissa Mary Miller Christie, أجاثا كريستي،, Agatha Mary Clarisa Miller Christie, Агата Мэри Кларисса Маллоуэн, אגאתה קריסטי, アガサ・クリスティ, Āġātā Krīstī, أجاتا كريستي،, كريستي، أغاتا،, アガサ クリスティー, Agatha Mallowan Christie, A. |q Kristi, Agatha M.C. Miller, Agatha)، كريستى، أجاثا (Christie, Agatha Mary Clarisse Miller, Aghatha Kristi, 阿加莎, Agatha Miller, A クリスティー, A. Kristi, Agathe Christie, A-ga-ta Kri-xti, אגאתה כריסטי, Ajiasa Kelisidi, كريستى، اجاتا،, Ajāthā Kirīstī, Agatha Chritieová, Агата Мэри Кларисса Миллер, आगाथा क्रिस्टी, اجاثا كريستى،, Н. А Богомолова, Agata Kristi, Agatha Miller, Agata Christie, Agatha Clarissa Mary Christie, كريستي، أجاتا،, Agaṭah Krisṭi, אגתה קריסטי, אגטה כריסטי, كريستى، اجاثا ميلر،, Akatā Kir̲isṭi, Agatha Christie Mallowan, كريستى، اجاثا،, アガサ クリスティ, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Agatha Chrisitie Mallowan, كريستى، أجاثا،, Agatha Miller Christie, А Кристи, Mary Westmacott, Mary Clarissa Miller, Mērija Vestmakota, Agata Krisṟṟi, كريستي، أغاثا،, Ajiasha, A クリスティ, كريستي، أجاثا،
Born:
Sept. 14, 1890
Died:
Jan. 12, 1976

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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 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 …

Books by Agatha Christie