Tuesdays 3-5 PM
September 30 through November 4, 2003
D.O.C. House
After a disastrous first marriage, Agatha Christie married Max Mallowan, an archaeologist 15 years her junior. Mallowan had a brilliant career, digging at Ur, Nineveh, Tel Brak and, eventually at Nimrud, the ancient Assyrian capital. For thirty years Christie accompanied Mallowan on his digs, taking an active part, particularly in recording and conserving finds. The Near East they worked in became the background for some of her novels - Murder in Mesopotamia, Appointment with Death, Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express. Christie came to love the Near East, its people, and the work she shared. She wrote a book about her experiences there: Come Tell Me How You Live. This six-week course will explore how Christie got involved with the Middle East and met Mallowan, and how this involvement shaped her subsequent life.
Class is limited to 20 participants.
Caroline Steele studied at Mount Holyoke and the University of Chicago and received a Ph.D. from the University of Binghamton. She has been a research associate at Trinity College (Cambridge) and at the University of Amsterdam, and has fifteen years of experience on archaeological projects in the Middle East and Turkey. She was formerly director of publications for the American Schools of Oriental Research.
Dick Steele is a retired research scientist/corporate executive. He was an undergraduate at Chapel Hill and earned a Ph.D. at Princeton. His research interests were in polymers and fibers.
