Agatha Christie is, by most accounts, the world's best-selling novelist. She's also one of the most underrated authors in literary history.
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In this program, we will explore some of the sources of Christie's genius: the strange nightmare that haunted her throughout childhood; her work in a hospital dispensary during World War I; the devastating break-up of her first marriage that invigorated her writing. We will also probe Christie's eleven day disappearance in 1926, a "case" that's still open. We will also delve into some of her novels during this program, "Murder on the Orient Express," "And Then There Were None," "Death On The Nile,"and Christie's notorious masterpiece, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd."
Maureen Corrigan is the book critic for the NPR program, "Fresh Air" and a Mystery columnist for The Washington Post. She's also the author and narrator of "The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie" (2021), an Audible Original Book. In 1999, Corrigan won an Edgar Award from The Mystery Writers of America for her contributions to the two-volume anthology, "Mystery and Suspense Writers" (Scribner). Maureen is also the Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University.
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