English writer, one of the most important names in detective literature and the creator of the detective Hercule Poirot character, Agatha Christie provides detailed information about her life...
Date of Birth: 15.09.1890
From: UK, Togay
Date of Death: 12.01.1976 (died at the age of 86)
Sign: Virgo
Family Life:
Agatha Christie was born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay, Devon. Her full name is Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie Mollowan. She also used the pseudonyms, Mary Clarissa Miller and Mary Westmacott. His father is Frederick Alvah Miller and his mother is Clarissa Miller. Christie's parents were in no hurry to name their daughter, deciding on the name "Agatha" just minutes before the christening ceremony. Her sister is Margaret Frary Miller and her brother is Louis Montant Miller.
Education:
Agatha Christie was homeschooled. Encouraged to write by her mother at a very young age, Christie was sent to Paris, where she took singing and piano lessons, at the age of sixteen.
Private life:
Agatha Christie married Archibald Christie, a Flying Royal Corps employee, in 1914. From this marriage, their daughter, Rosalind, was born in 1919.
He divorced Agatha Christie in 1926 after Archibald Christie revealed that he was in love with a younger woman named Nancy Neele. Upon this sadness, Agatha Christie, who experienced another pain in the same year, also lost her mother.
Two years after the divorce process was finalized in 1928, Agatha Christie accompanied Archaeologist Max Mallowan, whom she met during her visits to the Middle East in 1927, on her trips to excavation sites in Syria and Iraq. Agatha Christie, who later married Max Mallowan, traveled and saw many places.
Career:
Agatha Christie's first detective novel was The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The famous Belgian detective character, who would later appear in more than forty novels, was the first book in which she used Hercule Poirot. The book was rejected by various publishing houses. It was later adopted by Bodley Heidi Publishing House in 1920.
In the late 1920s, Agatha Christie's most intense work was published, four books on different mysterious events, fourteen books written by Detective Hercule Poirot, and four books in which she wrote the stories of Miss Marple and Inspector Battle. Agatha Christie, Harley Quin and Mr. She has written two books on Marker Pyne stories. Later, she wrote two stage plays.
The famous detective Christie wrote in her other book, the detective Miss Jane Marple, who is an amateur in her job, is written as a typical English character. The character of Poirot is a detective who does his duty to solve mysterious events using his logic, rational methods, and "little gray cells".
The character of Marple has fulfilled her duty as a detective who trusts her feminine instincts and ability to empathize. Marple's name appears in seventeen works, including Murder At The Vicarage, written by Agatha Christie in 1930, and finally, Sleeping Murder, written in 1977. The characters Poirot and Miss Marple have both been adapted for film and television.
In 1978, the movie Agatha, directed by Michael Apted and portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave, is about Christie's real-life story. The film disappeared for a while after Christie's divorce in 1926 and stayed at the Harrowgate Hotel, where Mrs. It is about living under the name of Neele.
The first six psychological romance novels, written by Agatha Christie under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, were published in 1936.
In 1937, she met Howard Carter and after her visit to Luxor, she wrote the stage play "Akhanaton", which was not published until 1973. This play was staged in 1979 in New York, London, under the name "Akhanaton" and "Nefertiti".
Agatha Christie served in the dispensary of University College Hospital in London during the second world war. After the war, in addition to continuing his novel studies, she also gained success on the stage and in the cinema.
In 1954, the play "Witness for the Prosecution" was selected as the best foreign stage play of the season by the New York Drama Critics Circle.
Agatha Christie became president of the British Research Club in 1967.
In 1971, Agatha Christie was awarded Britain's highest honor, the "Female Commander of the British Empire".
Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976, in Wallingford, England.
Agatha Christie is the best-selling British novelist of all time.
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles – 1920
- The Secret Adversary – 1922
- Murder on the Links – 1923
- The Man in the Brown Suit – 1924
- Poirot Investigates – 1924
- The Secret of Chimneys 1925
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1926
- The Big Four 1927
- The Mystery of the Blue Train 1928
- The Seven Dials Mystery – 1929
- Partners in Crime – 1929
- The Murder at the Vicarage – 1930
- The Sittaford Mystery – 1931
- Peril at End House – 1932
- The Thirteen Problems -1932
- Lord Edgware Dies – 1933
- The Hound of Dead – 1933
- Murder on the Orient Express – 1934
- The Listedeler Mystery – 1934:
- WHO Didn’t They Ask Evans? – 1934
- Parker Pyne Investigates – 1934
- Three-Act Tragedy- 1934
- Death in the Clouds – 1935
- The ABC Murders – 1936
- Murder in Mesopotamia – 1936
- Cards on the Table – 1936
- Dumb Witness – 1937
- Death on the Nile – 1937
- Murder in the Mews – 1937
- Appointment with Death – 1938
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas – 1938
- Easy to Kil – 1939
- The Rekâtta Mystery – 1939
- And Then There Webe None – 1939
- Sad Cypress – 1940
- Öne, To, Bukle My Shore – 1940
- Evil Under the Sun – 1941
- N or M? – 1941
- The Body in the Library – 1942
- Five Little Pigs – 1942
- The Moving Finger – 1942
- Towards Zero – 1944
- Death Comes as the End – 1944
- Sparking Cyanide – 1945
- The Hollow – 1946
- The Labours of Hercules - 1947
- Taken at the Floyd – 1948
- Witness for the Prosecution – 1948
- Crooked House – 1949
- A Murder is Announced – 1950
- Three Blind Mice – 1950
- They Came to Baghdad – 1951
- Mrs. McGinty’s Dead – 1952
- They Do It with Mirrors – 1952
- After the Funeral – 1953
- A Pocket Full of Rye – 1953
- Destination Unknown- 1954
- Hickory Dickory Dock – 1955
- Dead Man’s Folly – 1956
- 4.50 from Paddington – 1957
- Orda By Innocence – 1958
- Cat Among the Pigeons – 1959
- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding – 1960
- The Pale Horse – 1961
- The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side – 1962
- The Clocks – 1963
- A Caribbean Mystery – 1964
- At Berta’msa Hotel – 1965
- Third Girl – 1966
- Endeks Knight – 1967
- By the Pericin of My Thumbs – 1968
- Hallowe’en Party – 1969
- Passenger to Frankfurt – 1970
- Nemesis – 1971
- Elephants Can Remember – 1972
- Postern of Fate- 1973
- Poirot’s Early Cases – 1974
- Curtain – 1975
- Sleeping Murder – 1976
- Miss Marple’s Final Cases – 1979
- Problem at Pollensa Baym– 1991
- The Harlequin Tea Set - 1997
- While the Light Lasts – 1997