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Writers On A New England Stage: Alexander McCall Smith

Sara Plourde
Virginia Prescott and Alexander McCall Smith at The Music Hall

Today on Word of Mouth it's Writers on a New England Stage with Alexander McCall Smith, recorded live at The Music Hall in Portsmouth.  Best known as the author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, McCall Smith made his living for many years as an esteemed lawyer, medical law professor, and international authority on medical ethics and bioethics. 

He was born in what is now Zimbabwe, and helped found a law school in neighboring Botswana. It is there that he set his first novel about  Precious Ramotswe, who brought the innate curiosity and traditional wisdom honed as a child in the Kalahari desert to bear as Botswana's first ever lady detective.

Alexander McCall Smithjoined us shortly after publication of The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine, the 16th novel in a series that's sold more than 20 million books worldwide and been translated into 40 languages. 

NHPR's Broadcast Sponsor for this edition of Writers on a New England Stage is Heinemann Publishing

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