Culture Corner Exercise 1, page 102.0:02
Crime writers Agatha Christie was a famous English crime writer who is best known for her detective stories featuring hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple.0:27
Agatha was born in 1890 in the seaside town of Torquay in Devon, England to an American father and an English mother.0:39
Her family was well to do and conservative and she was the youngest of three children.0:49
Although Agatha never attended school, she didn't lack education.0:56
She taught herself how to read when she was only four and later her parents hired tutors to provide lessons in subjects such as music, dance, mathematics and French.1:01
Agatha was a shy child and having problems expressing herself verbally.1:14
She first turned to music and later to writing and became very good at making up stories.1:20
When she was 11, her father died and she became very close to her mother, with whom she started to travel a lot.1:27
During the First World War, Agatha worked as a nurse in a hospital and it was during this time that Agatha Christie got the idea of writing a detective novel.1:35
Although she finished the story in a year, it wasn't published until five years later.1:46
The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced the retired Belgian police officer Hercule Poirot to the world and was a great success.1:52
Following this, Agatha would write more than 30 novels featuring Poirot.2:02
In all, she wrote over 66 novels, the most famous being Murder on the Orient Express.2:08
And according to the Guinness Book of Records, Agatha Christie is the best selling writer of her time with over 4 billion books sold throughout the world.2:15
In 1971 she was awarded the high honour of Dame of the British Empire before passing away peacefully on 21st January 1976.2:25
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