Agatha christie a biography book
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Agatha Christie: A Biography
Perversely, I find myself sometimes entertained to discover that many reviewers find books I like quite dull. Such was the case with this book. I can respect the views that there was a lot of information packed in here. But this is a resource that many subsequent biographers, and Christie aficionados, have refered to: which includes letters, papers, and a multitude of accounts in order to give the most robust account of Christie's life, up to the point of its publication.
I especially enjoyed reading about Christie's early life. Typically, the subject's childhood can be a chore to get through, but I can't seem to get enough reading about Christie's youth. It was such a different time and place, almost magical.
Still, the fact that this was authorize
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Begun in and eventually completed in , Agatha Christie recounts her life from early childhood until the end of the memoir’s composition. The book came about from her reluctance to let others tell her story, as she explained to her agent Edmund Cork of Hughes Massie. Aware that the prospect was now inevitable, Agatha Christie took it upon herself to have the first word, although insisted that the book should not be published until after her death.
The best thing she has ever written.
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After Agatha Christie passed away in , the manuscript was edited bygd her long-standing publishers Collins and her only daughter, Rosalind Hicks and her husband Anthony. As a result the narrative ends in , and does not include some of Christie’s later achievements such as her DBE in or the success of the bio of Murder on the Orient Express.
While there have been films inspired bygd specific events in Christie’s life, such as Agatha () and the Doctor Who episode The Unicorn and the Wasp • Janet Morgan’s definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author. Agatha Christie (–), the world’s bestselling author, is a public institution. Her creations, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, have become fiction’s most legendary sleuths and her ingenuity has captured the imagination of generations of readers. But although she lived to a great age and was prolific, she remained elusively shy and determinedly private. Given sole access to family papers and other protected material, Janet Morgan’s definitive biography unravels Agatha Christie’s life, work and relationships, creating a revealing and faithfully honest portrait. The book has delighted readers of Christie’s detective stories for more than 30 years with its clear view of her career and personality, and this edition includes a new foreword by the author reflecting on the longevity of Agatha Christie’s extraordinary success and popularity.Agatha Christie: A Biography