Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English author best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, many of which featured fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote six novels under the alias Mary Westmacott, including the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which has been played in the West End since 1952. For her contributions to literature, she was named a Dame (DBE) in 1971. Christie is the best-selling fiction writer of all time, according to Guinness World Records, with more than two billion copies sold.

She is still the most-translated individual author, according to Index Translationum. With over 100 million copies sold, her novel And Then There Were None is one of the best-selling books of all time. The Mousetrap, Christie's stage drama, holds the world record for the longest first run. It premiered on November 25, 1952, at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End, and had over 27,500 performances by September 2018. Due to COVID-19 lockdowns, the play was closed in March 2020 and resumed in May 2021.

Christie received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the first time in 1955. Witness for the Prosecution won an Edgar Award for best play later that year. In 2013, 600 professional novelists from the Crime Writers' Association voted her the finest mystery writer and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd the best crime novel ever. In a vote sponsored by the author's estate in September 2015, And Then There Were None was chosen as the "World's Favourite Christie." Christie's books and short tales have been adapted for television, radio, video games, and graphic novels in large numbers. Her work has been adapted into almost 30 feature films.

Nationality: U.K