Jules Verne in Eighty Days" (1873). Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography Gregg, the director of six of her plays who, in his 1980 memoir "Agatha Christie and All That Mousetrap", spoke with some disparagement of Christie, stating at one point, “She owed an enormous debt to Peter Saunders yet in her autobiography she gives him scant mention. Speaking of "The Unexpected Guest" (which Gregg directed) she says quite simply that she wrote it. I think perhaps she didn’t like to confess – to herself, even – that her theatrical accomplishments could not be achieved without help.” However, Janet Morgan, Christie's official biographer, considered the "Autobiography" to be “an enchanting book, fluent,