Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie (1891-1976) was an English writer, began publishing detective stories in 1920. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was immediately successful. She joined second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan, on archaelogical excavations. She wrote over seventy novels, plus short stories and plays, and is known for characters such as Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Wisdom & Quotes

• It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius - some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit to the discipline of form.

- An Autobiography

• Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

- Witness for the Prosecution

• Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, 'It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?'

- Endless Night

Jomo Kenyatta

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Agathias, Agathocles, Agathon, Agave, AGC