British · b. 1948
Alexander McCall Smith is a prolific and beloved Scottish author best known for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, set in Botswana, celebrated for its warmth, gentle humor, and humane wisdom.
Born in what is now Zimbabwe and long resident in Scotland, Alexander McCall Smith was a professor of medical law before achieving worldwide fame as a novelist. He is extraordinarily prolific, the author of dozens of books across several series.
His best-known creation, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (1998) and its many sequels, follows Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s first female private detective, in gentle, warm-hearted mysteries that are as much about kindness and human nature as about crime. He also writes the 44 Scotland Street and Isabel Dalhousie series.
McCall Smith is cherished for the warmth, humor, and quiet moral wisdom of his fiction, and for his affectionate portrayal of Botswana and its people.
by Alexander McCall Smith
The first of Alexander McCall Smith's beloved series. In Botswana, the warm and wise Precious Ramotswe opens the country's first female-run detective agency, solving small mysteries and large human problems with common sense, kindness, and a deep love of her homeland.
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