Name of Author: Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Born: 15 September 1890
Torquay, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Died: 12 January 1976 (aged 85)
Winterbrook House, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Years of Active: 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976
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 A.B.C. Murders, And Then There Were None, The Mousetrap
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Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon, and was largely home-schooled. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections, but this changed in 1920 when The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring detective Hercule Poirot, was published. Her first husband was Archibald Christie; they married in 1914 and had one child before divorcing in 1928. During both World Wars, she served in hospital dispensaries, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the poisons which featured in many of her novels, short stories, and plays. Following her marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan in 1930, she spent several months each year on digs in the Middle East and used her first-hand knowledge of his profession in her fiction.
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