Alexander McCall Smith
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Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith CBE FRSE (born 24 August 1948) is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) 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.[1] He is known as the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.[1][2] The "McCall" derives from his great-great-grandmother Bethea McCall, who married James Smith at Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, in 1833.[3]
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Born | Rodney Alexander Alasdair McCall Smith (1948-08-24) 24 August 1948 (age 75) Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) |
Occupation | Professor of medical law, writer |
Nationality | British, Zimbabwean |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Education | Christian Brothers College, Bulawayo |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh (LLB, PhD, Emeritus Professor in the School of Law) |
Genre | Fiction, crime fiction, children's books, academic non-fiction |
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