Agatha Christie by Sophie Nelson

Agatha is a writer of novels, short stories, and plays.

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The last book she ever wrote was "Postern of Fate." Some of the Novels she wrote are The Unexpected Guest and Dumb Witness. Some short stories that she wrote are The Chocolate Box and Three Blind mice. A play that she wrote is Mouse Trap which is the longest-running play.

Had to teach herself how to read at 5 years old.

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Agatha did not have a formal education. She didn't have a teacher who could help her learn to read so she had to teach herself.

She writes best selling books with billions of printed copies.

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Agatha's best-selling book is called And Then There Were None. More than 100 million copies of that book were sold.

She wrote 66 detective stories and 14 short stories. She wrote a total of 80 books.

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The first novel that she wrote was Snow Upon the Desert. Six publishers turned down her book. Finally, her mom Clara, suggested that she get advice from a successful novelist Eden Phillpotts who was also a family friend and neighbor. He sent his publisher to her but they also turned down the book but encouraged her to keep writing.

Born in Torquay UK, on September 15, 1890.

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Agatha was born in Torquay UK, on September 15, 1890. Her family was in the wealthy upper-middle class. She was the youngest of three children. Her parents were Clarisa Margaret Boehmer and Fredrick Alvah Miller.

How she started writing.

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Agatha was introduced to writing because her sister challenged her to write a novel.

World War 1

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While being a nurse in WW1, she served in hospital dispensaries. She worked on poisons and gained knowledge that she would later use in some of her books.

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Agatha's Writing Style.

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Agatha's writing was influenced greatly by writers such as Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

She died in Oxfordshire, UK on January 12, 1976.

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Agatha died in Oxfordshire, UK on January 12, 1976, from natural causes. She was 85 years old. She had chosen where she had wanted to be buried 10 years earlier. 20 news reporters attended her funeral.

Agatha's Mystery

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After her first divorce and her mother dying, she made international headlines by going missing for eleven days in 1926.

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