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- Radio host : You are listening to CBC Radio 2, this is James Cooper and here’s your weekly reading program. I have with me tonight Laura Thompson. Good evening Laura !
- Laura : Good evening James!
- Radio host : Laura, you wrote a biography on Agatha Christie entitled a Life of Mistery.
- Laura : That’s right ! This woman really facinates me !
- Radio host : Tell us more about the best-selling author Agatha Christie…
- Laura : Well Agatha Christie was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller on September 15th, 1890, in Devon, in the southwest part of England. She was the youngest of three children.
In 1914 she married Colonel Archibald Christie, a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. The couple had one daughter, Rosalind, before their divorce in 1928.
In a writing career that last more than half a century, Agatha Christie wrote 79 novels and short stories. She also wrote over a dozen plays. The Guinness Book of World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies. She was nicknamed The Queen Of Crimes.
She published her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920 in which she introduced one of her most famous characters—The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Poirot and Miss Marple are Christie's most well-known detectives, the two appeared in dozens of novels and short stories.
In 1930, she married archaeology professor Max Mallowan but they didn’t have children.
she received her country's highest honor when she was made Dame Commander of the British Empire.
Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her house.
- Radio host : thank you Laura ! Well, that’s all for now, I hope you enjoyed it ! Have a good evening and see you next week!
