Anne Hart (Canadian author) Newfoundland Studies and Library Research Professor. Ms. Hart was one of the 2009 Winterset Board of Directors. Ms. Hart's biographies of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot were written with the full endorsement of Agatha Christie Limited. CBC Radio "Ideas" documentary: "Into Unknown Labrador: The Mina Hubbard Story", 1998-05-28. This lecture was also delivered by Ms. Hart to The Newfoundland Historical Society on January 27, 2000. 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
Miss Marple in 1930. The character of Miss Marple is based on Christie's step grandmother/aunt (Margaret Miller, née West), and her cronies. Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources, stating that Miss Marple was "the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my step grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl". Christie also used material from her fictional creation, spinster Caroline Sheppard, who appeared in "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd". When Michael