Alexander McCall Smith, 65, is “the scholar who wrote the leading (and only) work on criminal law in Botswana, where he lived for a few years setting up the law faculty with the University of Botswana. Nine universities have granted him honorary degrees. He was a professor of medical law at the University of Edinburgh, an expert on medical ethical issues, before he devoted himself full-time to his literary career in the wake of becoming a global publishing phenomenon with his The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, in the early 2000s. (It has sold 20 million copies worldwide.)” Read the full story here.
In addition to being the author of the international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, McCall Smith also writes the Isabel Dalhousie Series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the 44 Scotland Street series. He lives in Scotland. Visit his website here.
