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
Miss Marple nephew ("A Caribbean Mystery", 1964). She is not herself from the aristocracy or landed gentry, but is quite at home among them and would probably have been happy to describe herself as "genteel"; indeed, a "gentlewoman". Miss Marple may thus be considered a female version of that staple of British detective fiction, the gentleman detective. She demonstrates a remarkably thorough education, including some art courses that involved study of human anatomy through the study of human cadavers. In "They Do It with Mirrors" (1952), it is revealed that Miss Marple grew up in a cathedral close, and that she studied