Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

(1948) children's writer United Kingdom

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Alexander McCall Smith (born 1948) was a United Kingdom children's writer, known for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

About Alexander McCall Smith

Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was born and brought up in Southern Rhodesia and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on related British and international committees. He has since become known as a fiction writer, with sales in English exceeding 40 million by 2010 and translations into 46 languages. He is known as the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The "McCall" derives from his great-great-grandmother Bethea McCall, who married James Smith at Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, in 1833.

Known for:

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Notable works:

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Awards:

Knight Bachelor|Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize|Best Crime Novel in Swedish Translation|Dagger in the Library|Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|Commander of the Order of the British Empire|honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh|Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences|Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature|honorary doctorate from the University of Parma

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