John Steinbeck in 1939 Born

As Mary Westmacott[edit]

Christie published six mainstream novels under the name Mary Westmacott, a pseudonym which gave her the freedom to explore "her most private and precious imaginative garden".^{[12]:366–67[27]:87–88} These books typically received better reviews than her detective and thriller fiction.^[12]:366 Of the first, Giant's Bread published in 1930, a reviewer for The New York Times wrote, "... her book is far above the average of current fiction, in fact, comes well under the classification of a 'good book'. And it is only a satisfying novel that can claim that appellation."^[134] After her authorship of the first four Westmacott novels was revealed by a journalist in 1949, she wrote two more, the last in 1956.^[12]:366

The other Westmacott titles are: Unfinished Portrait (1934), Absent in the Spring (1944), The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948), A Daughter's a Daughter (1952), and The Burden (1956).