Agatha Christie - биография

| Главная [index.htm] | Обучение | Домашние работы | | Контрольные и рефераты | Заказ и оплата | Ссылки | Agatha Christie Agatha Christie is possibly the word's most famous detective story writer. She wrote about 80 novels and several plays. But behind her works was a painfully shy woman whose life was often lonely. She was born in 1891, the third child of Clarissa and Frederick Miller. She was educated at home, which was customary for young women during the Victorian era. When a child she was thinking of turning to music as a future profession (she was a talented pianist). But she was too shy to perform in front of the audience. During World War I, while she was working in a hospital dispensary, she learned about chemicals and poisons, which proved very useful in her later carreer. She wrote her first detective novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", in 1920. In it she introduced Hercule Poirot, the Belgain detective who appeared in many later novels. Her other main detective was an elderly spinster called Miss Marple. Since 1920 she continued writing at last one novel a year with her fame growing throughout the rest of her life. In 1914 she married Archibald Christie but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1926. That year there was a double tragedy in her life because her much-loved mother died. Agatha had a nervous breakdown and one night she suddenly disappeared, having left her car outside London. She was discovered only 11 days later in a hotel in Harrogate, in the North of England. Christie refused to discuss this incident for the rest of her life and developed very bitter feelings towards the media. Agatha Christie enjoyed a very happy second marriage to Max Mallowan, an archaeologist. To the end of her life she tried to stay away from the publicity, working on her novels and plays. She died peacefully in 1976. Украинская Баннерная Сеть