Agatha Christie was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Sept 15, 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England. She was received an Order of Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1971 and died in Jan 12, 1976 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. She was an English detective novelist and playwright whose books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into some 100 languages.
During her life she married in 1914 an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps named Colonel Archibald Christie. They had a daughter, Rosalind, and in 1928 they divorced.
Agatha Christie wrote 79 novels and short story collections, a dozen plays. Poirot features in 33 novels and many short stories. Miss Jane Marple is in 12 novels.
She wrote 6 romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westacott.
Christie also wrote non-fiction - four books including an autobiography and an account of the archeological expeditions she shared with her second husband Sir Max Mallowen whom she married in 1930.
I have enjoyed reading Agatha Christie's books as a light break from the heavy reading I have to do at great length for my University studies.
I don't have any specific favourites, however, I enjoy Hercule Poirot, and Jane Marple (which I reckon are the detectives in the bulk of her novels).
These are the books I have read (clicking on the book names will open a new page for that book at the Agatha Christie Official site):
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It is worth a visit to the Official Agatha Christie Site.
