Anne Hart (Canadian author) Anne Hart (Canadian author) Anne Hart (née Hill), OC (born October 7, 1935) is a Canadian author specialising in biographies. She is best known for "The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple", her biography of the Agatha Christie character, and is a Member of the Order of Canada. Ms. Hart received an arts degree from Dalhousie University and a library science degree from McGill University. She then started work with Newfoundland's Memorial University library in 1969 and made it her career until retirement in 1997. Notable positions during her time at Memorial University included head of the Centre for
Agatha Christie TV reporters, some having travelled from as far away as South America. Thirty wreaths adorned Dame Agatha's grave, including one from the cast of her long-running play "The Mousetrap" and one sent 'on behalf of the multitude of grateful readers' by the Ulverscroft Large Print Book Publishers. She was survived by her only child, Rosalind Hicks (1919–2004), and only grandson, Mathew Prichard. Her husband, Max, died in 1978, aged 74, after having remarried in 1977. He was interred next to Agatha Christie. Christie had set up a private company, Agatha Christie Limited, to hold the rights to her works, and