Agatha Christie
15/IX/1890- 12/1/1976
Torquay, England
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller grows up in a nominally Christian family environment, but with esoteric beliefs, as her mother was said to be a psychic with extrasensory perceptions. Her parents insisted that she receive a homeschooling and she was also instructed in music. Like much of her childhood in solitude, she was a voracious reader from an early age. Her father was a sickly man and died when she was 11 years old, leaving the family with an uncertain and devastating future. This incident, according to her, ended her childhood.
She marries in first nuptials with the pilot aviator Archibald Christie, from whom she divorces due to an infidelity of his. She enters a deep nervous breakdown with a psychogenic fugue so she receives psychiatric treatment.
With her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan, she had a long and fruitful relationship until his death.
Christie published 66 detective novels in addition to plays, six romance novels, short stories, two autobiographies, two books of poetry and a children’s book.