Christie, Agatha: - Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, (15 September 1890 - 12 January 1976) was an English writer.
Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics, and more than thirty feature films have been based on her work..
In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America\'s highest honour, the Grand Master Award.
She remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages.
Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world\'s most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare\'s works and the Bible.
Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time.
During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels.
Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches.
Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon.
In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her contribution to literature.
Christie also wrote the world\'s longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances.
She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Christie, Agatha: - Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, (15 September 1890 - 12 January 1976) was an English writer
