Biography
Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE (born 24 August 1948), is a British 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. He is known as the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The "McCall" derives from his great-great-grandmother Bethea McCall, who married James Smith at Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, in 1833.
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Scotland's Treasures (2016)
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Alexander McCall Smith / Writer
Botswana In the Footsteps of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective With Alexander McCall Smith (2009)
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The Meerkats (2008)
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Known ForWriting
Birthday1948-08-24 (76 years old)
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesEdinburgh, United Kingdom
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Literature, honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Dagger in the Library, Martin Beck Award, Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, honorary doctorate from the University of Parma
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