Biography

Agatha Christie was born the 15th of September in 1890 (in England or the UK) and she died the 12th of January in 1976, at the age of 85. She was a British writer and playwright and, during her career, she wrote 66 novels. Her novels belonged mainly to the detective and suspense genre.

During her first years, she received private education and when she was a teenager she studied in various high schools at Paris. Her father was a rentier in New York and her mother was a housewife. She wrote her first novel during the first World War while she was working as a nurse and she created and introduced new characters in her novels like Miss Marple, Hercules Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, etc.

She had two relationships: one with Archibald Christie, but she got divorced in 1928. Years later, she had another relationship with an archeologist called Max Mallowan and she accompanied this archeologist in his expeditions. Some places she visited during the expedition inspired her to write more novels. She only had one daughter called Rosalind Hicks, which died in 2004.

She wrote many novels and here are some of the most important ones: Murder in the Orient Express, The ten Blacks, Death on the Nile, Five piglets, Date with death, Murder is announced, Death under the sun, etc. Many of her novels have been adapted to the cinema, television or the theater.

In her honor, she is actually known as the queen of the crime and she sold more than 4 million novels in the world. Nowadays, Agatha Christie appears in the Guinness World Records Book and people still continue reading her novels of mystery and crime.

Curiosities of this author:

- She wrote romantic novels and she published them but with another name

- She disappeared eleven days because of amnesia

- She knew things about toxicology

- She saved money to buy a car because she liked to have her own car