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Agatha Christie

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born
in Torquay, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
September 15, 1890

died
January 12, 1976

gender
female

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Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Katherine Green, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Ches...more


About this author

Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.

During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse; later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison.

On Christmas Eve 1914 Agatha married Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. The c...more


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Jeffrey Eugenides (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

JK Rowling, Meg Cabot, Allyson Condie, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Oscar Wilde, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway and way too many others. (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

David Gemmell (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

L.A Weatherly (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Kate DiCamillo (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

J.K. Rowling, F. Scott Fitzgerald. George R. R. Martin (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Terry Goodkind, Meg Cabot (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Amanda Hocking (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Kim Harrison (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Margaret Peterson Haddix (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Glen Duncan (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

John Scalzi, Joe Hill and Rob Stennett (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

J. G. Ballard (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Joesph Conrad (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Josh Lanyon (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

John Flanagan, Dianna Wynne Jones, Eoin Colfer, Brandon Mullis, J.R.R. Tolkein, . . . gosh too many amazing authors to name (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Maggie Stiefvater (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Eoin Colfer, Suzanne Collins, Christopher Paolini, J.K. Rowling, Lian Tanner (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Jeanette Winterson (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

At the moment, Jane Austen, Dorothy Dunnett and Sharon Kay Penman. But, tomorrow, I may read a book that will completely transfix me and the favorites will change slightly! (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Carlos Castaneda (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

William Gibson (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Pramoedya Ananta Toer (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

J.K. Rowling and Sherman Alexie and Libba Bray and MT Anderson and Markus Zusak (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jane Austen (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Johanna Lindsey (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Carson McCullers (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

JK Rowling, Agatha Christie, John Green, Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher Paolini, James A Owen (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

colleen hoover (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

john green and kurt vonnegut (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Shirley Jackson (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Nikos Kazantzakis (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Derek Landy, J.K Rowling, Cathy Cassidy, Nicolas Sparks and C.S Lewis, but there are so many more that just don't come to my head now! (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Jayne Ann Krentz (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Lian Tanner, Eoin Colfer, J.K. Rowling, Christopher Paolini, and any others. There are too many that I like! (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Terry Brooks (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Tim O'Brien (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

I have one or two for each genre that I read so it would be too hard to choose just one!! (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Trudi Canavan (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Aldous Huxley (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Herman Melville (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

John Krauker (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Primo Levi (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Reiner maria Rilke,james joyce,fernand pessoa,virginia woolf,charles baudelaire (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 0.1%

Zora Neal Hurston (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Henry James (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jerry Spinelli (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Johanna Spyri, Jane Austen, Robert Arthur, Louisa May Alcott, (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Yusuf Idris , Kafka ,Pessoa ,Galeano ,nd Borges (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Carolyn Keene (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Suzanne Collins/Lauren Oliver/Veronica Roth/Catherine Fisher (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

margaret peterson haddix (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Julie Lessman (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Roger Zelazny, Richelle Mead (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jane Hamilton (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

V.C. Andrews (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K. Rowling, Tamora Pierce, James Patterson,
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Romain Gary (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Samantha Young (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Kristen Heitzmann (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Lisa Kleypas (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jrr Tolkien, Giorgio Faletti, Dan Brown, Laurell K Hamilton, Suzanne Collins, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Nietzsche, Frank Schatzing (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K Rowling, Alyson Noel, Lauren Myrcale, Terry Goodkind, and so so many more. I just cannot name just one. (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Locke (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

becca fitzpatrick (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Ann Brashers, Meg Cabot, Nicholas Sparks (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Carol Goodman (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

David Eddings (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

James Morrow (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jack Higgins (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

tom robbi s (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Cassandra Clare, Suzanne Collins, Veronica Roth, J.K. Rowling, George R.R. Martin, J.R.Ward, Becca Fitzpactick,... (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

susan collens (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

enid blyton (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Dick Francis (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Aaron Dembski-Bowden (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Too many to choose just one (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Kristen Ashley & J.R. Ward (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jim Harrison (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Saul Bellow (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Green, Harper Lee, Jerry Spinelli, Gary Schmidt, Suzanne Collins (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Ken Kesey (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Terrance Dicks (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K. Rowling, Rick Riordan, Suzanne Collins, Darren Shan (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Dan Abnett (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Denis Johnson (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Alexandre Dumas (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Barry Unsworth (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Gaston Leroux (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Minette Walters (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Flanagan (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

mohammed khudaier (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Marion Zimmer Bradley (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Daniel Silva (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Thomas Bernhard (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Paige Toon, Jane Costello, Lindsey Kelk (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Lauren Kate, Alyson Noel, and Pseudonymous Bosch (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

JK Rowling, Suzanne Collins, Neal Shusterman (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

A. Lee Martinez & Cherie Priest (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Bruno Schulz (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Sylvia Plath (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

William Burroughs (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Susan Cooper (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Richelle Mead and Andrea Creamer (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Judith McNaugh, Mary Balogh, SEP, Julia Quinn, Julie Garwood, Lindsey Johanna, Lindsay Sand, Sandra Brown,Lisa Kleypas, Linda Howard, Rachel Gibson, ... (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

BA TORTUGA (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Lauren Conrad, Lauren Myracle, and Laura Ingalls Wilder (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Philippa Gregory (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

George Bernard Shaw, Daniil Kharms, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Mark Twain, A.N. Meshcheriakov (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

j.k. rowling, jessica verday, jane austen, harper lee, (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K Rowling,Alyson Noel,Aprilyenne Pike,Stephenie Meyer and some more classics (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Charles Bukowski (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Courtney Summers (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Poppy Z Brite (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Susanna Kearsley (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Manly Wade Wellman (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Pseudonymous Bosch (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Sheila O'Flanagan (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jane Austin, Irvin Yalom (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Stieg Larsson (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Shirley (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Connolly (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Robert Crais (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K rowling, rebecca stead, roald dahl (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

anne rice (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Green, Ransom Riggs and Markus Zusak (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Maria V. Snyder (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Rick Riordan, J.K. Rowling, John Green, Cassandra Clare, Jane Austen, Suzanne Collins (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Michelle Hodkin (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jane Austen, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Maud Hart Lovelace, J.K. Rowling, and Ally Carter (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

ML Malcolm (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Kate Flora and Carolyn McCray (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Derek Landy with Garth Nix and Ted Dekker, among others coming in close second (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Margaret Mahy, Margaret Atwood and Traci Harding (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jeff Strand (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Anton Chekhov (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

R. A. Salvitore (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Maggie Stiefvater and Christopher Paolini (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jonathan Safran Foer, Truman Capote (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Sidney Sheldon (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

علي الطنطاوي (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

scott gandert (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

none of the above (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

you and nicholas sparks and jane porter (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

jennifer l armentrout (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Scott Gandert (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, Louis L'Amour, and Piers Anthony. (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Robyn Carr, Julie James, Sylvia Day (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Almost all the above at one time or other! (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Sarah Waters, Ken Follett, Sebastian Faulks, Louis De Bernieres, Iain Pears, Anne Rice. (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Tom Robbins hands down (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Dorothy Dunnett (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jim Butcher, Orson Scott Card, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Diana Wynne Jones (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.KRowling, Michael Connelly, Jodi Picoult, paula brackston, Mary Sharratt, Dan Brown, John Grisham, (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Melissa De La Crus (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

R.M.Rilke (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Anne,Emily and Charlotte Bronte,Pessoa,Tolstoy,Baudelaire and Orwell (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Joseph Heller (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

orson scott card (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

The 'steadiest' list of my favorites: Saadat Hasan Manto, Ismat Chughtai, Oscar Wilde, Isaac Asimov, Shariar Mandanipour, Terry Pratchett, Roald Dahl, and Anne Fine. (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Thomas Pynchon (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Jakes, David Baldachi, Louis L'Amour, Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks, too many! (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Saramago (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Karen Moning (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Daniel Pinkwater (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Lorrie Moore (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Alexander McCall Smith (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Rick Riordon! (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

lynsay sands, sherrelyn kenyon, christine feehan, alexandra ivy, sherrelyn kenyon, gena showalter and many more (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

George Orwell (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J K rowling, Rick Riordan and Enid Blyton (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Joey W. Hill, Cherise Sinclair, D.B. Reynolds (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Michael Crichton (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Jr ward (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Heather Brewer (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

christine feehan (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Alison Weir (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

james patterson, rick riordan, suzanne collins, ally condie, (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

So Many Old, So Many New, Mystery, Science Fiction, Romance & Drama (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

عبد الوهاب المسيري , بهاء طاهر ,المنسي قنديل ,محمود درويش,غسان كنفاني (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Wilbur Smith (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Anne Tyler (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Rick Riordan and H.M. Ward (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Darren Shan (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Katherine Kurtz (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.R.R. Tolkien, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jessica Day George, Shannon Hale, Donita K Paul, Brian Jacques (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Ally Carter, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Jane Austen, Alexandra Brackets, Jessica Day George, Rick Riordan, Shannon Hale, Lesley Livingston, Regina Damon, and (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Green, Rick Riordan, Veronica Roth, Kristen Cashore, Cassandra Clare and many more :) (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Orson Scott Card (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Michelle Kodkin (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

Richelle Mead, J.K Rowling, Roald Dahl, Cassandra Clare, LJ Smith, Sarah Alderson and Kiera Cass (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, John Green (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

C. J. Cherryh (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Green, Rick Riordan, Cassandra Clare, and etc (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

John Sandford (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 0.0%

J k rowling, Enid Blyton and Rick Riordan (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Deeanne Gist (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Norah Lofts (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Reiner maria Rilke (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

CJ Box
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Eduardo Hughes Galeano (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Lidia Yuknavitch (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Sean Quirk (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

fitzgerald (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Don Delillo (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

george orwell, jared diamond (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Jessica Verday (write-in)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Michael connelly
 
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Patricia Highsmith (write-in)
 
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