

In 1930, she married Sir Max Mallowan, an archaeologist and a Catholic. In 1928 she divorced her husband, who had been having an affair. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. Her father died when she was eleven years old.

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker.
