This is a school project on Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an English writer. Known as the queen of crime, during her lifetime, she sold hundreds of millions of copies of her* detective novels worldwide, and was recognized as the most published author in history, only surpassed by the Bible* and Shakespeare. {the Bible isn't an author}
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, Devon County, England on September 15, 1890. She spent most of the time writing poems and short stories. In 1914, she married the British driver Archibald Christie, whose surname she adopted.

In 1917, challenged by her sister Madge to write a police plot {better: detective story}, wrote her first book, "The Mysterious Case of Styles" in which the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, first appeared. The book was only published in 1920. She wrote other books, but it was in 1926 with "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" that she became famous. After her husband revealed that he wanted to separate, {better: "a separation" or "a divorce"} Agatha* {better: Christie} disappeared and was only found after 11 days. Some people said the disappearance was a plot to sell more books.

In 1930, already divorced, she married the archaeologist Max Mallowan and they traveled to the East. There, she was inspired to write several books including "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934), "Murder in Mesopotamia" (1936), "Death on the Nile" (1937) and "They Came to Baghdad" (1951).

Her most constant character, the detective Hercule Poirot appeared in 33 books. Another well-known character is the curious Miss Marple, inspired by her grandmother. The play "The Mousetrap" (1951) is the most popular Agatha Christie work, directed more than 13 thousand times in England. Some of her books have been adapted for film, television and theater.

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller died in Wallingford, England of pneumonia on January 12, 1976.

*Agatha Christie is a woman, so use the feminine pronoun "her" always.

**We don't refer to people we don't know by their first name. For example, we don't say "William wrote Romeo and Julliet". We say "Shakespeare wrote..."