Who is Agatha Christie?
Agatha Christie, born Agatha Miller, is one the best-loved mystery writers of the 20th century. She is certainly the most easily recognizable, and no mystery or crime writer since has had the same level of success. She was born in 1890, and died, much to the disappointment of her admirers in 1976. In addition to enjoying financial success from her books and plays, Agatha Christie was honored by Queen Elizabeth II when she gave her the title of Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1971. Her early years gave her much inspiration for later books. She married in 1914, and divorced her first husband, Archibald Christie, 14 years later. He is described as good-looking but cruel, and many such males in Christie’s books are thought to have been modeled on her unhappy life with her first husband. Christie had her only child Rosalind, in 1919. Agatha Christie remarried in 1930, to Sir Max Mallowan, who was an archaeologist. Together the two traveled frequently to the Middle East, and several
