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An AutobiographyAgatha Christie

Characters in An Autobiography

6 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Agatha Christie

    The author narrating her own life from Victorian childhood through fame, two marriages, and old age, candid about feelings yet markedly reticent about certain episodes.

Supporting characters

  • Archibald "Archie" Christie

    Her first husband, a wartime aviator whom she marries in 1914 and whose later affair ends the marriage in divorce.

  • Max Mallowan

    The archaeologist who becomes her second husband and companion on Middle Eastern expeditions, central to the contented later chapters.

  • Clara Miller

    Her mother, the warm and imaginative center of her childhood, whose death in 1926 leaves her devastated.

  • Madge

    Her elder sister, an early storytelling rival whose dare helped spur Agatha to try writing detective fiction.

  • Rosalind

    Her daughter from the first marriage, born in 1919.