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R. Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, (born 24 August 1948) is a British writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late twentieth century, McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees concerned with these issues. He has since become internationally known as a writer of fiction. He is most widely known as the creator of the ''The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'' series. "McCall" is not a middle name: his surname is "McCall Smith".〔(McCall Smith praises inspiration of islands ). Headline and also in text: "McCall Smith, 65, says islands take their residents back to childhood." Article dated 14 October 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2013.〕 ==Biography== Alexander McCall Smith was born in Bulawayo in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), where his father worked as a public prosecutor. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College before moving to Scotland to study law at the University of Edinburgh, where he earned his PhD in law. He soon taught at Queen's University Belfast, and while teaching there he entered a literary competition: one a children's book and the other a novel for adults. He won in the children's category, and published thirty books in the 1980s and 1990s.〔 He returned to southern Africa in 1981 to help co-found and teach law at the University of Botswana. While there, he cowrote what remains the only book on the country's legal system, ''The Criminal Law of Botswana'' (1992). He returned in 1984 to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he lives today with his wife, Elizabeth, a physician, and their two daughters Lucy and Emily (he lives close to the authors JK Rowling, Ian Rankin and Kate Atkinson.〔(Ian Rankin ) No. 1 Magazine, Retrieved 24 February 2014〕). He was Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh at one time and is now Emeritus Professor at its School of Law. He retains a further involvement with the University in relation to the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In addition, to being the Honorary President of the Diagnostic Society of Edinburgh - Edinburgh’s oldest society which can trace our origins to the Dialectic Society, founded in 1787 -, where he is in regular contact with its members and occasionally holds its meeting in his Edinburgh residence. He is the former chairman of the ''British Medical Journal'' Ethics Committee (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 achieving success as a writer, he gave up these commitments. He was appointed a CBE in the December 2006 New Year's Honours List for services to literature. In June 2007, he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws at a ceremony celebrating the tercentenary of the University of Edinburgh School of Law. In June 2015, he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters at a graduation ceremony at the University of St Andrews. He is an amateur bassoonist, and co-founder of The Really Terrible Orchestra. He has helped to found Botswana's first centre for opera training, the Number 1 Ladies' Opera House,〔(''Times'' article )〕 for whom he wrote the libretto of their first production, a version of ''Macbeth'' set among a troop of baboons in the Okavango Delta.〔(The Okavango Macbeth, More Information )〕 He is also the author of a testimonial in ''The Future of the NHS'' (2006). His use of the serial format, in his Edinburgh and Pimlico novels, has revived the nineteenth-century format used by authors including Charles Dickens and Armistead Maupin. In 2009, he donated the short story ''Still Life'' to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project—four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. McCall Smith's story was published in the 'Air' collection.〔(Oxfam: Ox-Tales )〕 Former First Lady of the United States Laura Bush is a big fan of McCall Smith's, as is Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander McCall Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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