The book introduced Miss Jane Marple, one of Christie’s most utilized and celebrated characters that appeared in dozens of her novels and short stories.Ĭhristie would go on to become known as the “Queen of Crime” with her writings selling more than 2 billion copies worldwide. That year, she released Murder at the Vicarage and it became another instant classic. She divorced in 1928 and remarried in 1930. She disappeared - clearly traumatized - and was missing for ten days until she was found in a hotel registered under the name of her husband’s mistress. That same year, her mother died and she discovered that her husband had been having an affair with another woman. It was always remembered by Christie as one of her favorites. Her first successful novel was The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, written in 1926. In 1905, she was sent to Paris and educated at Mademoiselle Cabernet’s, Les Marroniers, and then Miss Dryden’s - the last of which was a finishing school.Ĭhristie published her first book - The Mysterious Affair at Styles - in 1920. In 1902, Christie was sent to Miss Guyer’s Girls School in Torquay, but didn’t like the discipline. She taught herself to read by the age of five. She was born on 15 September 1890 in Torquay, Devon, South West England. Agatha ChristieĪgatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time - known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. Here are some of the greatest examples of famous authors that became screenwriters - and how they fared. So making the jump from short stories and novels to screenplays is a huge undertaking, even for the most skilled authors. Authors of short stories and novels rely only on the reader’s imagination and the help the author can give to feed that imagination with details. They are blueprints utilized within a collaborative medium where literally hundreds of people will work to make those visuals come to life. With screenplays, those reading them don’t have the time. With short stories and novels, most readers revel in those details. You can spend pages and pages on those elements without worrying about pacing and lack of engagement. You can write long prose detailing a particular location. You can go into detail describing a character’s wardrobe, mannerisms, and background. With short stories and novels, authors don’t have those restraints. One page equals one minute of screen time. They have 90-120 pages - give or take - to convey a visual story. Every single line of scene description and dialogue translates to the screen, which is why screenwriters can’t go into such detail.
Screenwriting is a visual medium, so those writing screenplays do not have the benefit of being able to write detailed back stories and inner thoughts of characters. But crossing that bridge is no easy venture. Some of the greatest films of all time, in a wide variety of genres, have been adapted from short stories and novels.ĭespite the fact that the literary and cinematic storytelling mediums are often vastly different, some talented writers have managed to bridge the gap between the two - to varying degrees of success.
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