All You Want To Know About Agatha Christie.

Agatha Clarrisa Miller was born September 15, 1890 at Ashfield, the family home located in Torquay, Devon, England. Agatha was the youngest of three children born to Clarissa Margaret and Frederick Alvah Miller. Agatha’s father died when she was 10 years old and she was very close to her mother through her childhood. Agatha never attended normal school and was taught at home by her family governess before attending finishing school in 1906. Not attending regular school left Agatha very shy but imaginative. She learned early on the create games and things to keep herself occupied.

On Christmas Eve in 1914, at the age of 24, Agatha married Royal Flying Corp Aviator Archibald Christie. In 1919, the loving couple had daughter Rosalind. While Agatha’s husband was off flying in World War I, Agatha herself worked at a hospital as a nurse where she learned many things about sorrow, illnesses and, of all things, poisons. This knowledge gave her the idea to write her first novel “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” where she would use the information she learned on poisons such as ricin and strychnine. It was published in 1920.

In 1924, Agatha’s husband stated that he wanted a divorce. After an argument, Archie went to stay with his mistress and Agatha simply disappeared. No one could find her for 11days until someone recognized her at a small hotel. She couldn’t tell what had happened and two doctors saying she had stress induced amnesia.

In 1930, Agatha met her second husband Max Mallow on an archeological dig. They had a happy marriage at first but he also cheated with other women. Their marriage endured this and continued until Agatha’s death in 1977. By the time Agatha died, she had written 66 novels, 160 short stories, 16 plays and several other works including 6 romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott.