Agatha Christie

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Aliases:
アガサ クリスチィ, Mary Clarissa Miller, Ajiasha Kelisidi, and 65 others アガサ クリスティー, アガサ クリスティ, Ajiasa Kelisidi, Agatha Christie-Mallowan, A. |q Kristi, Agatha M.C. Miller, Agatha Christie Mallowan, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, كريستي، أغاثا،, А Кристи, أجاثا كريستي،, אגאתה קריסטי, اجاثا كريستى،, A クリスティー, Agathe Christie, , Agatha Miller, アガサ・クリスティ, Н. А Богомолова, A クリスティ, Aghatha Kristi, Agatha Clarissa Mary Christie, Mary Westmacott, आगाथा क्रिस्टी, Agatha Kristi, אגתה קריסטי, Akatā Kir̲isṭi, كريستي، أجاتا،, Agatha Chrisitie Mallowan, Agatha Clarissa Mary Miller Christie, Ajiasha, Āġātā Krīstī, Agatha Mallowan Christie, Agata Krisṟṟi, Agatha Miller, Агата Мэри Кларисса Миллер, A-ga-ta Kri-xti, אגטה כריסטי, Agathe Marie Clarissa Miller, Ajāthā Kirīstī, 阿加莎, أجاتا كريستي،, A. Kristi, אגתה כריסטי, كريستي، أجاثا،, Agatha Chritieová, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie, Agatha Christie, Agatha Mary Clarisse Miller, Агата Кристи, Agatha Miller Christie, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, كريستي، أغاتا،, Agatha)، كريستى، أجاثا (Christie, Agata Kristi, Agaṭah Krisṭi, Agatha Mary Clarisa Miller Christie, كريستى، اجاثا ميلر،, كريستى، اجاثا،, Агата Мэри Кларисса Маллоуэн, 阿加莎 克里斯蒂, كريستى، اجاتا،, Mērija Vestmakota, אגאתה כריסטי, كريستى، أجاثا،, Agata Christie
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