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 ...

"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.

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.

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 ...