Showing posts with label Max Mallowan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Max Mallowan. Show all posts

Monday, December 14, 2015

Christie in Mesopotamia.

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology uncovered a photo in its archives of a "Mrs. Mallowan"; archivists realized that she was known better by another name: Agatha Christie. Christie was visiting a UChicago-Penn excavation at Nippur in Mesopotamia with her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan, ca. late 1940s/early 1950s.

Monday, October 04, 2010

BBC Archive on Agatha Christie.

The BBC Archive offers various video pieces pertaining to Agatha Christie:

• Christie on "How to Write a Bestselling Novel" (1955)
Various celebrations around the Christie play "The Mousetrap"
• An interview with Christie's second husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan
• The place of Devon in Christie's work