Agatha Christie

By Kseniya Shevchenko

Agatha Christie

• Agatha Christie (full name Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie) is known all over the world as the Queen of Crime. She wrote 78 detective novels, 19 plays, and 6 romantic novels. Her books have been translated into 103 foreign languages. They are the third best-selling books in the world (after Shakespeare's works and the Bible).

Agatha Christie

• She was born on September 15th, 1890, in Torquay, Devon as the daughter of a British army captain. She was the youngest child in the family of wealthy American settlers.

Her home education

• She got excellent home education.According to Christie, Christie's motherClara believed she should not learn to read until she was eight; thanks to her curiosity, she was reading by age four.[10]:13 Her sister had been sent to a boarding school, but their mother insisted that Christie receive a home education. As a result, her parents and sister supervised her studies in reading, writing, and basic arithmetic, a subject she particularly enjoyed. They also taught her music, and she learned to play the piano and the mandolin

Her job

• During the First World War she worked in a hospital as a nurse. Later on she got a job in a pharmacy. This influenced many of her crime stories because some of her victims were poisoned.

Agatha Christie

• In 1914, during Christmas time, Agatha married Colonel Archibald Christie, whom she admired for several years. They had a daughter Rosalind

Her first novel

• This was the time when she seriously took up writing. In 1920, her first novel, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”, was published. For the first time readers met a fictional character Hercule Poirot, who consequently appeared in many other Christie’s books .

Agatha Christie

• In 1926 Agatha’s mother died, and soon after that her husband fell in love with another woman and asked for a divorce. In December 1926 Agatha Christie disappeared. She left a letter where she wrote that she was heading to Yorkshire. Nothing was known about her for 11 days. She didn’t explain her disappearance. In 1928 Archibald and Agatha divorced

Second marriage

• Second marriage and later years
• In 1930 Agatha Christie went to Iraq. During that journey she met her future husband archaeologist Max Mallowan. Agatha Christie’s second husband was 15 years younger than her. They travelled together a lot. Agatha accompanied him on his trips to Iraq and Syria. Christie often used those settings for her new novels.

Agatha Christie

• These expeditions were later described in many of her stories. She also wrote an autobiography about that period of her life - “Tell me how you live”. In 1956, the talented writer was awarded the Order of the British Empire for her achievements in the field of literature.

Agatha Christie

• Starting from 1971, her health began gradually to deteriorate, nevertheless she continued writing.

Agatha Christie

• She died on January 12th, 1976, after a short cold. Agatha Christie’s grandson, Mathew Prichard, inherited the rights to some of her literary works, including her most successful play “The Mousetrap ”.
• She died on January 12th, 1976, after a short cold. Agatha Christie’s grandson, Mathew Prichard, inherited the rights to some of her literary works, including her most successful play “The Mousetrap ”.

Источник информации

• https:// may.alleng.org/engl-top/552.htm
• https:// 24smi.org/celebrity/1179-agata-kristi.html

• Shevchenko Kseniya 9V