![]() He then went back to Africa-first to Swaziland to teach and then, by 1980, to Botswana. Law and Teaching After completing his education, Smith began teaching law at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He left Africa when he was seventeen years old to continue his education in Scotland. The youngest ofįour children, Smith spent the whole of his childhood in Bulawayo and attended the Christian Brothers College there. His mother wrote a number of unpublished manuscripts. ![]() ![]() Growing Up in Africa Smith was born on August 24, 1948, in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (later known as Zimbabwe), where his father worked as a public prosecutor in what was then a British colony. Works in Biographical and Historical Context Readers and critics have been charmed by the stories, which are more about relationships, customs, and informal justice than sleuthing. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (1998), became a best-selling novel in the United States after it was popularized by word of mouth. ![]() Smith also had in print numerous books of fiction for children and short-story collections before he published a series of detective stories set in Botswana. ![]() For example, he has written about the duty to rescue and the impact of medical advances on parental rights. A professor of medical law at Edinburgh University, Smith has published many works on medical ethics and criminal law. The diverse accomplishments of Alexander McCall Smith include a distinguished career as a legal scholar and more recent fame as a best-selling novelist. ![]()
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