Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the international phenomenon
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the
Isabel Dalhousie Series, the
Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the
44 Scotland Street series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served on many national and international bodies concerned with bioethics. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and he was a law professor at the University of Botswana. He lives in Scotland. Visit him online at
www.alexandermccallsmith.com, on
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Twitter.