Alexander McCall Smith
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born
August 24, 1948
gender
male
place of birth
Bulawayo (formerly the British colony of Southern Rhodesia), Zimbabwe
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Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Children's Books
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Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over sixty books on a wide array of subjects.
For many years he was Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh and served on national and international bioethics bodies. Then in 1999 he achieved global recognition for his award-winning No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, and thereafter devoted his time to the writing of fiction, including the 44 Scotland Street and the von Igelfeld series.
His books have been translated into forty-two languages. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife Elizabeth, a doctor.
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May 2009,
Alexander McCall Smith
"I think it is important to remember that, in spite of [HIV], countries in sub-Saharan Africa keep going as best they can, and therefore we should not concentrate exclusively on writing about the bad things in Africa. There is plenty of good news, and there are many very good things happening there, so why should we not celebrate these?" ...More
"I think it is important to remember that, in spite of [HIV], countries in sub-Saharan Africa keep going as best they can, and therefore we should not concentrate exclusively on writing about the bad things in Africa. There is plenty of good news, and there are many very good things happening there, so why should we not celebrate these?" ...More
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"You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel."
— Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)
— Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)
"It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything."
— Alexander McCall Smith (Morality for Beautiful Girls)
— Alexander McCall Smith (Morality for Beautiful Girls)
"It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin."
— Alexander McCall Smith
— Alexander McCall Smith
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