Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie Agatha Christie was born 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England, and educated at home by her mother. Her father was called Frederick Miller so she was born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. In 1914 she married Colonel Archibald Christie, but then World War I had broken out. Agatha worked as a nurse in a Red Cross hospital in Torquay at that time and that experience was going to be useful later on in her life. ... But Agatha’ s books first attracted attention in 1926 when she published The Murder of Roger Ackroyd witch became published three times both 1945, 1971 and in 1984. Agatha made news herself when she disappeared for a few days after her husband wanted a divorce (she was soon found to be staying in a hotel under an alias). ... They married in 1930 and Agatha Christie became Agatha Christie Mallowan.