Christie’s autobiography is a doorstop. Thoughts about writing, her characters and her career run through it, but they rarely take up more than two consecutive pages.

"Agatha Christie: An Autobiography" is no dry accounting; Christie writes with such wit and insight that all 542 pages fly by. Born Agatha Miller in 1890, she never went regularly to any school.

Her life story “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography” (Harper, $29.99), which has just been rereleased with a new foreword by her grandson, is similarly brisk and admirable, although at 532 pages ...

In this new edition of Agatha Christie’s autobiography - which includes a wonderful CD of recordings, featuring Christie dictating the manuscript - the world’s bestselling author reveals her ...

Agatha Christie’s autobiography, published posthumously in 1977, provides a fascinating window into the economic life of middle-class Britons a century ago. The year was 1919, ...

Was there ever a writer who, on the face of it, looked less destined for literary immortality than Agatha Christie? Born Agatha Miller, naturally shy and brought up in a cosseted Edwardian home in ...

Maureen Corrigan recommends two books that grapple with real-life mysteries: Laura Thompson's biography of the sphinxlike Agatha Christie, and I'll Be Gone In The Dark, by the late Michelle McNamara.

"An Autobiography" by Agatha Christie (Harper Collins, $29.99) is a reissue of her 1977 autobiograph. Now it comes with a CD of her dictating parts of the book.

Christie, as Thompson details, came by such understanding through the traditional means of early hardship. Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in 1890, her middle-class upbringing in Torquay was ...