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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born in Torquay, a seaside town in Devon England, and spend most of her childhood with her mother in their home called Ashfield. She did not have an extensive formal education. In her early education at home, her parents feared she may be developmentally challenged because of her shyness, though this faded as she showed a distinct curiosity and propensity for logic and music. In 1906, she was sent to a finishing school in Paris, where she studied piano and …
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born in Torquay, a seaside town in Devon England, and spend most of her childhood with her mother in their home called Ashfield. She did not have an extensive formal education. In her early education at home, her parents feared she may be developmentally challenged because of her shyness, though this faded as she showed a distinct curiosity and propensity for logic and music. In 1906, she was sent to a finishing school in Paris, where she studied piano and …
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Ketti Frings
Ketti Frings (1909-1981) A Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Ketti Frings started her career in writing as an advertising copy editor and novelist before writing her award winning drama, Look Homeward, Angel (1957). Before her Broadway debut with Mr. Sycamore (1942), produced by the Theatre Guild, Frings worked as a copywriter, a publicity agent, a columnist, a radio scriptwriter, and ghostwriter under the name Anita Kilgore. Born Katherine Hartley in Columbus, Ohio, a…
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born in Torquay, a seaside town in Devon England, and spend most of her childhood with her mother in their home called Ashfield. She did not have an extensive formal education. In her early education at home, her parents feared she may be developmentally challenged because of her shyness, though this faded as she showed a distinct curiosity and propensity for logic and music. In 1906, she was sent to a finishing school in Paris, where she studied piano and …
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born in Torquay, a seaside town in Devon England, and spend most of her childhood with her mother in their home called Ashfield. She did not have an extensive formal education. In her early education at home, her parents feared she may be developmentally challenged because of her shyness, though this faded as she showed a distinct curiosity and propensity for logic and music. In 1906, she was sent to a finishing school in Paris, where she studied piano and …
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born in Torquay, a seaside town in Devon England, and spend most of her childhood with her mother in their home called Ashfield. She did not have an extensive formal education. In her early education at home, her parents feared she may be developmentally challenged because of her shyness, though this faded as she showed a distinct curiosity and propensity for logic and music. In 1906, she was sent to a finishing school in Paris, where she studied piano and …
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born in Torquay, a seaside town in Devon England, and spend most of her childhood with her mother in their home called Ashfield. She did not have an extensive formal education. In her early education at home, her parents feared she may be developmentally challenged because of her shyness, though this faded as she showed a distinct curiosity and propensity for logic and music. In 1906, she was sent to a finishing school in Paris, where she studied piano and …
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born in Torquay, a seaside town in Devon England, and spend most of her childhood with her mother in their home called Ashfield. She did not have an extensive formal education. In her early education at home, her parents feared she may be developmentally challenged because of her shyness, though this faded as she showed a distinct curiosity and propensity for logic and music. In 1906, she was sent to a finishing school in Paris, where she studied piano and …
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