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Biography of Agatha Christie
Name: Agatha Christie
Birth Date: September 15, 1890
Death Date: January 12, 1976
Place of Birth: Torquay, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, playwright
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was the best selling mystery author of all time and the only writer to have created two major detectives, Poirot and Marple. She also wrote the longest-running play in the modern theater, The Mousetrap.The daughter of an American father and a British mother, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born at Torquay in the United Kingdom on September 15, 1890. Her family was comfortable, although not wealthy, and she was educated at home, with later study in Paris. In 1914 she was married to Col. Archibald Christie; the marriage produced one daughter.In 1920 Christie launched a career which made her the most popular mystery writer of all time. Her total output reached 93 books and 17 plays; she was translated into 103 languages (even more than Shakespeare); and her sales have passed the 400 million mark and are still going strong.It was in her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), that Christie introduced …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…opened in London in 1952 and played there for over three decades, a run unparalleled in theater history. Many of her mysteries were made into movies--And Then There Were None three times--with the most successful those in which Margaret Rutherford portrayed Miss Marple. In 1998, her play Black Coffee (1930) was adapted into a novel by Charles Osborne, with permission from Christie's literary executors.Named a Dame of the British Empire in 1971, Christie died on January 12, 1976. Further Reading Besides An Autobiography (1977), there is a good biography by Gwen Robyns, The Mystery of Agatha Christie (1978). It contains a bibliography, although not as complete a one as that in Contemporary Authors. Janet Morgan's Agatha Christie: A Biography (1985) traces the writer's career through her first marriage and 1928 divorce. Christie is also a central figure in Sir Max Mallowan's Mallowan's Memoirs (1977). A semi-factual, semi-fictional look at the 1926 disappearance can be found in Kathleen Tynan's Agatha (1978).
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