Biographie d'Agatha Christie (document en anglais)

Présentation

Agatha Christie was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller on (Sep 15 1890 she died on 12 January 1976), and after her second marriage, Agatha Mallowan, and from her ennoblement in 1971, Dame Agatha Christie, was a woman of British letters, author of many detective novels. Her name is associated with one of two recurring heros Hercule Poirot, professional detective, and Miss Marple, amateur detective. Her nickname is the "Queen of Crime", this makes her one of the largest and most innovative writers (in the development of the genre), she wrote several novels, some romance under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.

Writer

Agatha Christie was one of the most famous writers in the world and was considered the most widely read author of the story among the Anglo-Saxons after William Shakespeare. She published 66 novels, 154 new and 20 plays translated worldwide. Many are written in, closed session which allows the reader to guess the culprit before the end of the story.

A significant number of her novels and short stories were adapted for film or television, particularly Murder on the Orient Express, Ten Little Indians, Death on the Nile, The Train 16 h 50 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd .

Childhood

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on 15 September 1890 in Torquay, in the county of Devon, an American father, Frederick Alvah Miller, and a British mother, Clarissa Margaret Boehmer. His parents belonging to the upper middle class give rise to Margaret "Madge" Frary Miller (1879-1950) in Torquay then Louis 'Monty' Amount (1880-1929) born in New York, where the family moved there because Frederick is his business. Clara (affectionate abbreviation of the name Clarisse) bougher a house in Torquay, named "Ashfield" where the third and last child, Agatha Mary Clarissa was born.

While his brother and sister were placed in boarding school, his parents offered him a careful education at home: his governess taught her to write her father and arithmetic, then it was essentially his mother who cared for her to following the death of her father when she was eleven years old. This education allows him to write very early poems, stories and news, encouraged by his mother. She her imagination with stories and poems drawn from the family library fed.

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