Max Mallowan Discovery" (1956) and his wife Agatha Christie described his work in Syria in "Come, Tell Me How You Live" (1946). Max's first wife, Lady Mallowan, known to millions as Dame Agatha Christie, died in 1976; the following year, Mallowan married Barbara Hastings Parker, an archaeologist, who had been his epigraphist at Nimrud and Secretary of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. Mallowan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 Queen's Birthday Honours, and knighted in 1968. He and Dame Agatha Christie were among a number of married couples each of whom held knightly
Mary Robison from severe writer's block and in an effort to overcome it she scribbled her thoughts on thousands of index cards. These cards were reworked to become the novel "Why Did I Ever", which consists of 536 short chapters. Her novel "One DOA, One on the Way" was chosen by Oprah Winfrey's Book Club for 2009 summer time reading. Robison has been married twice. Her second husband was author James Robison, whom she divorced in 1996. She has two daughters by her first husband. Mary Robison Robison was born to patent attorney Anthony Cennamo and F. Elizabeth (Cennamo) Reiss, a child