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.
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Awards & Honors
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
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
honorary doctorate from the University of Parma
