| 词条 | Christianna Brand |
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| image = Christianna brand upload.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Pencil sketch of Christianna Brand | pseudonym = | birth_name = Mary Christianna Milne | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1907|12|17}} | birth_place = British Malaya | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1988|03|11|1907|12|17}} | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Writer | language = English | nationality = England | ethnicity = | citizenship = British | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = Children's literature Mystery | subject = | movement = | notableworks = Green for Danger and other books in The Inspector Cockrill Series; Nurse Matilda | spouse = Roland Lewis | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }} Christianna Brand (17 December 1907 – 11 March 1988) was a British crime writer and children's author, born in British Malaya. BackgroundChristianna Brand was born Mary Christianna Milne (1907) in Malaya but spent most of her childhood in England and India.[1] She had a number of different occupations, including model, dancer, shop assistant and governess.[2] Brand also wrote under the pseudonyms Mary Ann Ashe, Annabel Jones, Mary Brand, Mary Roland, and China Thompson. Christianna Brand served as Chair of the Crime Writers' Association from 1972-1973.[3] Her first novel, Death in High Heels, was written while Brand was working as a salesgirl, the idea stemming from her fantasies about doing away with an annoying co-worker. In 1941, one of her best-loved characters, Inspector Cockrill of the Kent County Police, made his debut in the book Heads You Lose. The character would go on to appear in seven of her novels. Green for Danger is Brand’s most famous novel. The whodunit, set in a World War II hospital, was adapted for film by Eagle-Lion Films in 1946, starring Alastair Sim as the Inspector. She dropped the series in the late 1950s and concentrated on various genres as well as short stories. She was nominated three times for Edgar Awards: for the short stories "Poison in the Cup" (EQMM, Feb. 1969) and "Twist for Twist" (EQMM, May 1967) and for a nonfiction work about a Scottish murder case, Heaven Knows Who (1960). She is the author of the children's series Nurse Matilda, which Emma Thompson adapted to film as Nanny McPhee (2005). Her Inspector Cockrill short stories and a previously unpublished Cockrill stage play were collected as The Spotted Cat and Other Mysteries from Inspector Cockrill's Casebook, edited by Tony Medawar (2002). She was the cousin of the illustrator Edward Ardizzone. BibliographyNovelsAs Christianna BrandNovels featuring Inspector Charlesworth
Novels featuring Inspector Cockrill
Novels featuring Inspector Chucky
Non-series Titles
Collections
Books for Children
As Mary Roland
As China Thompson
As Annabel Jones
As Mary Ann Ashe
Unpublished Novels
Non-fiction Books
Uncollected Short StoriesAs Mary Brand
As Christianna Brand
Unpublished Short Stories
Uncollected Short Non-FictionAs Christianna Brand
Anthologies edited by Christianna Brand
References1. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/christianna-brand/ |title= Christianna Brand|accessdate=28 February 2010 |publisher=Fantastic Fiction }} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Brand, Christianna}}2. ^{{Cite web |url= https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104447/bio|title= Biography for Christianna Brand|accessdate= 28 February 2010|publisher= Internet Movie Database}} 3. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.thecwa.co.uk/history.html |title=History of the CWA |accessdate=28 February 2010 |publisher=Crime Writers' Association |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529220736/http://www.thecwa.co.uk/history.html |archivedate=29 May 2010 |df=dmy-all }} 4. ^{{ISBN|9780718112721}}, {{OCLC|1365327}} 8 : 1907 births|1988 deaths|British mystery writers|Members of the Detection Club|British children's writers|20th-century British novelists|Women mystery writers|20th-century women writers |
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