Alexander Mccall Smith
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Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE (born 24 August 1948), is a British-Zimbabwean writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh.
McCall Smith became a well-known medical law and bioethics researcher in the late twentieth century and served on British and international committees dealing with these topics. He has since become well-known as a writer of fiction, with sales of English-language versions approaching 40 million and translations into 46 languages.
He is best known as the creator of The No. 3000. The Ladies' Detective Agency is the first in a series.
"McCall" is not a middle name; his two-part surname is "McCall Smith."
Early life
Alexander McCall Smith was born in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia's British colony (present-day Zimbabwe), to British parents. He was the only son, having three elder sisters. His father served as a public prosecutor in Bulawayo. George Marshall McCall Smith, a medical doctor and New Zealand community leader, was born in Scotland and died at Nairn, Scotland. McCall Smith was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Bulawayo before moving to Edinburgh, where he obtained his LLB and PhD degrees. He began teaching at Queen's University Belfast, and during that time, he entered a literary competition: one a children's book and the other a adult novel. He was crowned in the children's category.
Personal life
In 1984, he settled in Edinburgh, Scotland. In the city's Merchiston/Morningside district, he and his wife Elizabeth, a surgeon, bought and restored a large Victorian mansion. They lived there for almost 30 years, raising their two children. J. K. Rowling, Ian Rankin, and Kate Atkinson were among the authors who lived nearby.
He co-founded The Really Terrible Orchestra, an amateur bassoonist. He has worked to establish the Number 1 Ladies' Opera House in Botswana, for whom he wrote the libretto of their first performance, a Macbeth version set among a troop of baboons in the Okavango Delta.
At an awards ceremony at St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, he received the Golden Plate Award of Achievement from the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
He appeared in a documentary about author W. Somerset Maugham's life and work in 2012. Revealing Mr. Maugham was on the radio in 2012.
McCall Smith purchased the Cairns of Coll, a collection of uninhabited islets in the Hebrides, in 2014. "I intend to do absolutely nothing with them" and want to ensure that, after I'm gone, they are kept in faith, unspoilt, and uninhabited for the nation, according to his. I want them to remain a wildlife sanctuary – for birds and seals, and all other animals to which they are native – in perpetuity.
During a visit to New Zealand in 2014, McCall Smith visited Rawene, where his grandfather, George McCall Smith, supervised the hospital for 34 years and founded the Hokianga health service.
Professional career
He returned to southern Africa in 1981 to help establish the law school and teach law at the University of Botswana. He co-wrote Botswana's Criminal Law (1992).
He was Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh and now Emeritus Professor at the University of Law. He has remained involved with the university in connection with the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
He is the former chairman of the British Medical Journal (until 2002), the former vice chairman of the Human Genetics Commission of the United Kingdom and a former member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO. After a success as a writer, he resigned from these obligations. In the New Year's Honours List for services to literature, he was named a CBE. At a ceremony honoring the University of Edinburgh School of Law's Tercentenary in June 2007, he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws. At a graduation ceremony at the University of St Andrews, he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in June 2015.