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Ngaio Marsh
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New Zealand writer (1895-1982)
OverviewAI-generated
Ngaio Marsh, born Edith Ngaio Marsh on 23 April 1895, was a New Zealand writer, theatrical director, novelist, and autobiographer. She was educated at the University of Canterbury and wrote in the English language, specifically New Zealand English. Her literary career began in 1932, focusing on the genre of detective fiction.
Marsh was born and died in Christchurch. Her notable works include *Night at the Vulcan*, *Died in the Wool*, *Death at the Bar*, *Spinsters in Jeopardy*, and *Death in Ecstasy*. She authored 111 works, with five cited in Crossref records. Her name appears in 286 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 30 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 23 April 1895
- Died
- 18 February 1982
- Works
- 111
Top works
- The Venice Train, The Wager and Black as He's Painted
- Country House Murders
- Night at the Vulcan
- Died in the wool
- Death at the bar ...
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- New Zealand
- Active from
- 1895
- Active to
- 1982
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 156
- Total plays
- 4,513
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ngaio+Marsh">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
· 2006 · cited 10,537x
- Classification of subtype of acute ischemic stroke. Definitions for use in a multicenter clinical trial. TOAST. Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment.
· 1993 · cited 10,369x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,261x
- In Search of Golden Rules: Comment on Hypothesis-Testing Approaches to Setting Cutoff Values for Fit Indexes and Dangers in Overgeneralizing Hu and Bentler's (1999) Findings
· 2004 · cited 5,240x
- The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysis
· 2009 · cited 4,000x
via Crossref · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Christchurch
- Place of death
- Christchurch
- Occupation
- playwright
- Educated at
- University of Canterbury
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- New Zealand English
- Genre
- detective fiction
- Image
- Ngaio Marsh by Henry Herbert Clifford ca 1935, crop.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Ngaio Marsh
- date of birth
- 1895-04-23
- date of death
- 1982-02-18
- start of work period
- 1932-00-00
- name in native language
- Edith Ngaio Marsh
- writing language
- English language
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0