About the Author
Agatha Christie Douglas Adams Lewis Carroll
Agatha Christie 1890 - 1976 • Born into an upper-middle class family • Lived through Victorian & Edwardian periods as well as two world wars • Changes in social & political values – would these have affected her writing?
• 66 crime novels • 14 short stories • 6 romance novels
Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001 Radical Atheist & Environmental Activist
Also briefly: • Hospital porter • Barn builder • Chicken shed cleaner • Bodyguard
Climbed Kilimanjaro 1994 – raised around £100,000
Campaigned on behalf of endangered species – this Included the production of his series Last Chance to See
Lewis Carroll 1832 - 1898 Mathematician, Logician, Anglican Deacon & Photographer 10 brothers and sisters – home schooled until the age of 12