agatha christie

Agatha Christie was a prolific and extremely popular British author and playwright best known for her work in the murder mystery genre. From her first novel in 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, to the reprints of her novels that still appear today, some 30 years after her death, Agatha Christie's works have enjoyed unparalleled success. But while Christie and her favorite characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, have become icons of "who dunnit" detective fiction, the scope of Christie's popularity is such that that sales of her books have not only surpassed that of any other mystery writer, but of all other writers of any genre. Not even William Shakespeare has been so widely read. In fact, according to the Guinness Book of World Records over 2 billion copies of her books have sold and her works have been translated into more than 100 languages. Only the Christian Bible has outstripped her in readership.


Agatha Christie - Had a learning disability called dysgraphia, which prevented an understood or legible written work. As a result, all materials had to be dictated to a typist/transcriptionist.

It is official: famous mystery novelist Agatha Christie suffered from Alzheimer's.

Lancashire, who is a professor of English, and Hirst, who is a computer scientist, have combined humanities and science to give conclusive proof of Agatha's Alzheimer's-related dementia during the final years of her life.But she was old when she got her sickness called alzheimer's, when she was young, she had a sickness called epilepsy but there are rare documentations that has not been published yet about her epilepsy.

As what i have understood from what i have read from the different informations given by the net is that:

Having Epilepsy should not be a barrier to your aspirations and dreams. You can be whatever you want to be. You can achieve your goals if you stay positive…. don’t dwell on what you can’t do, focus your efforts on what you can do.

there's one article though said that (about agatha christie) one thing that keeps her being motivated was her family.

There are a lot of illness and failures that came to her life but still she kept forcing herself but she really loves her work, its actually one thing that would make you excel, its actually the love and interest of your work.