Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

Agatha Christie… Best Selling Author for Ages


Tue 17 Sep 2019 | 11:53 AM
opinion .

Agatha Christie, who was known as the mystery queen, has written over 66 detective novels and 14 story collections, in addition to a number of plays.

She entered the Guinness records with more than 2 billion copies sold and translated into more than 103 languages.

Despite the great difficulties she faced in her childhood, the strength of her mother's personality and her insistence on the success of her children inspired her to overcome her circumstances and personal nature.

She described her childhood in a remarkable sentence: "I spent a childhood homeless to the utmost happiness."

Her father died of a heart attack during the financial crisis and did not leave what helps them to live. They were forced to do away with servants and many of the basics of life and were educated from home.

Her mother wanted her daughter to become an opera singer, and despite her beautiful voice, she had a big problem getting on stage and singing because of her extreme shyness.

Her shyness led her to a fiction world and she wrote six romantic novels under a pseudonym because she was ashamed to write her own name. Her first novel was rejected, classified as bad, but her second novel was published after six publishers rejected it.

In the same year that her mother died and she suffered psychological breakdown after discovering the betrayal of her husband, she disappeared for ten days. The British people together with the police went in search of Christie until they found her in an abandoned hotel in a state similar to amnesia.

Then, she went to the east where she met her second husband, an archaeologist who was 25 when she was 40. He was able to provide her with psychological, family, emotional and intellectual stability, accompanying her for 45 years until her death at the age of 85.

Christie left behind a state of extraordinary creativity, which amazed anyone. She left a hope reminding everyone of his ability to tame this defect to become fuel for his creativity.

  • Contributed By: Ahmed Yasser