Enid Blyton a collection of papers belonging to Blyton's daughter Gillian, purchased by Seven Stories in 2010 following her death. It was initially thought to belong to a comic strip collection of the same name published in 1949, but it appears to be unrelated and is believed to be something written in the 1930s, which had been rejected by a publisher. In a 1982 survey of 10,000 eleven-year-old children Blyton was voted their most popular writer. She is the world's fourth most-translated author, behind Agatha Christie, Jules Verne and William Shakespeare with her books being translated into 90 languages. From 2000 to
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,