Agatha Christie (Person) AKA Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, Lady Mallowan, DBE, Mary Westmacott
Agatha Christie
1890 AD - 1976 AD
AKA Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, Lady Mallowan, DBE, Mary Westmacott
English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End since 1952, as well as six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author.
In 2011, Christie was named the second most financially successful crime writer of all time in the United Kingdom, after Ian Fleming, by digital crime drama TV channel Alibi with total earnings around £100 million.
In 2012, Christie was among the people selected by the artist Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous work, the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, "to celebrate the British cultural figures he most admires"
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