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Agatha Christie seated at a wooden desk, typing on a typewriter with papers in front of her, in a room with bookshelves and a window, 1946. Agatha Christie Roland Young, June Duprez, Barry Fitzgerald, Louis Hayward, and Walter Huston stand around a table with figurines in a scene from the 1945 film And Then There Were None. Copies of And Then There Were None, along with other novels by Agatha Christie, on a shelf in a bookstore.
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Ernest Hemingway at the Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, 1953. Ernest Hemingway American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) portrait by Carl Van Vecht April 3, 1938. Writer, folklorist and anthropologist celebrated African American culture of the rural South.
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American jazz singer Billie Holiday (1915-1959). Photo taken New York, February 1947
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Agatha Christie: Quotes

  • Habit
    Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.Agatha Christie: Witness for the Prosecution
  • Invention and Discovery
    I don't think necessity is the mother of invention—invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.Agatha Christie: An Autobiography