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Agatha Christie (Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller) was born on 15 September, 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England, UK, is a writer,camera_department. Discover Agatha Christie's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

Popular As Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Occupation writer,camera_department
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 15 September, 1890
Birthday 15 September
Birthplace Torquay, Devon, England, UK
Date of death 12 January, 1976
Died Place Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Nationality United Kingdom

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Agatha Christie Height, Weight & Measurements

At 86 years old, Agatha Christie height is 5' 7¾" (1.72 m) .

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Height 5' 7¾" (1.72 m)
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Who Is Agatha Christie's Husband?

Her husband is Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan (11 September 1930 - 12 January 1976) ( her death), Archibald Christie (24 December 1914 - 20 April 1928) ( divorced) ( 1 child)

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Husband Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan (11 September 1930 - 12 January 1976) ( her death), Archibald Christie (24 December 1914 - 20 April 1928) ( divorced) ( 1 child)
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Agatha Christie Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Agatha Christie worth at the age of 86 years old? Agatha Christie’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. She is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Agatha Christie's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
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Source of Income Writer

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1862

While still in this point of her life, Agatha sought advise from professional writer Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960).

1890

Agatha was born as "Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller" in 1890 to Frederick Alvah Miller and Clara Boehmer. Agatha was of American and British descent, her father being American and her mother British. Her father was a relatively affluent stockbroker.

1901

Her father died in 1901.

1902

Agatha received home education from early childhood to when she turned 12-years-old in 1902. Her parents taught her how to read, write, perform arithmetic, and play music.

Agatha was sent to a girl's school in Torquay, Devon, where she studied from 1902 to 1905.

1905

She continued her education in Paris, France from 1905 to 1910. She then returned to her surviving family in England. As a young adult, Agatha aspired to be a writer and produced a number of unpublished short stories and novels. She submitted them to various publishers and literary magazines, but they were all rejected. Several of these unpublished works were later revised into more successful ones.

1913

Meanwhile she was searching for a suitable husband and in 1913 accepted a marriage proposal from military officer and pilot-in-training Archibald "Archie" Christie.

1914

They married in late 1914. Her married name became "Agatha Christie" and she used it for most of her literary works, including ones created decades following the end of her first marriage. During World War I, Archie Christie was send to fight in the war and Agatha joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, a British voluntary unit providing field nursing services.

She performed unpaid work as a volunteer nurse from 1914 to 1916. Then she was promoted to "apothecaries' assistant" (dispenser), a position which earned her a small salary until the end of the war.

1915

She worked at a chemist's shop between 1915 and 1918 in the seaside resort of Torquay, England.

1916

Agatha wrote "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", her debut novel ,in 1916, but was unable to find a publisher for it until 1920. The novel introduced her famous character Hercule Poirot and his supporting characters Inspector Japp and Arthur Hastings. The novel is set in World War I and is one of the few of her works which are connected to a specific time period. Following the end of World War I and their retirement from military life, Agatha and Archie Christie moved to London and settled into civilian life.

1918

She ended her service in September, 1918.

1919

Their only child Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Christie (1919-2004) was born early in the marriage.

1920

Agatha's debut novel was first published in 1920 and turned out to be a hit.

1922

It was soon followed by the successful novels "The Secret Adversary" (1922) and "Murder on the Links" (1923) and various short stories. Agatha soon became a celebrated writer.

1926

In 1926, Archie Christie announced to Agatha that he had a mistress and that he wanted a divorce. Agatha took it hard and mysteriously disappeared for a period of 10 days. After an extensive manhunt and much publicity, she was found living under a false name in Yorkshire. She had assumed the last name of Archie's mistress and claimed to have no memory of how she ended up there. The doctors who attended to her determined that she had amnesia. Despite various theories by multiple sources, these 10 days are the most mysterious chapter in Agatha's life.

1928

Agatha and Archie divorced in 1928, though she kept the last name Christie. She gained sole custody of her daughter Rosalind.

1930

In 1930, Agatha married her second (and last) husband Max Mallowan, a professional archaeologist.

1934

In 1934, Agatha and Max settled in Winterbrook, Oxfordshire, which served as their main residence until their respective deaths. During World War II, she served in the pharmacy at the University College Hospital, where she gained additional training about substances used for poisoning cases. She incorporated such knowledge for realistic details in her stories.

1940

The last two novels published were Curtain (chronicling Hercule Poirot's last case) and Sleeping Murder (the last Miss Marple novel). She wrote both books in the 1940s, and then locked them in a safe deposit box. It is stated in her biography, that she wrote the two final cases for Marple and Poirot early, in case she was killed in WWII. This way fans would have closure concerning her characters fates.

1946

Her second husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist, and she chronicled her travels with him in the Middle East in her 1946 book "Come, Tell Me How You Live."

1956

She became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1956 and a Dame Commander of the same order in 1971.

1958

On Saturday April 12th, 1958, her play The Mousetrap, which opened in London on November 25, 1952, became the longest running production of any kind in the history of British Theatre, beating out the five-and-a-half years of Chu Chin Chow.

1963

Her influence even extended to science fiction and her murder mysteries influenced three stories from the television series Doctor Who (1963): Doctor Who: The Robots of Death: Part One (1977), Doctor Who: Black Orchid: Part One (1982) and Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Nine (1986). She was later portrayed on screen in the story Doctor Who: The Unicorn and the Wasp (2008).

1968

Her husband was knighted in 1968. They are among the relatively few couples where both members have been honored for their work.

1973

Although it was not the last novel she published in her lifetime, the last novel that Agatha Christie wrote was Postern of Fate (1973). It featured her re-occurring characters Tommy and Tuppence, and marks their final appearance in a novel.

1974

Agatha continued writing until 1974, though her health problems affected her writing style. Her memory was problematic for several years and she had trouble remembering the details of her own work, even while she was writing it. Recent researches on her medical condition suggest that she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other dementia.

1976

They would remain married until her death in 1976. Christie often used places that she was familiar with as settings for her novels and short stories. Her various travels with Max introduced her to locations of the Middle East, and provided inspiration for a number of novels.

1979

She was played by Vanessa Redgrave in Agatha (1979). Redgrave previously played Mary Debenham in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), an adaptation of her 1934 novel of the same name.

2001

She is mentioned in Zwei Männer am Herd: Diebe der Liebe (2001).

2004

According to her grandson Mathew Prichard, who runs the Agatha Christie estate, she was very keen on using new types of media to help reach fans in new ways. He said this in April 2004 when it was announced that five of her books would be turned into computer games.