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BIOGRAPHY

Born in Rhodesia , now Zimbabwe , Alexander McCall Smith was educated in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe before moving to Scotland to study law. After returning to southern Africa to teach law at the University Of Botswana , he returned once more to Edinburgh , where he lives today. He was sometime Professor of Medical Law at the University Of Edinburgh and is now Emeritus Professor at its School of Law.

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 Commission of UNESCO . Due to his late success as a writer these other commitments could not be continued.

He is an amateur '' ( 2006 ) (ISBN 1-85811-369-5) edited by Dr Michelle Tempest .

He was appointed a CBE in the December 2006 New Year's Honours List . In June 2007 he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor Of Laws at a ceremony celebrating the tercentenary of Edinburgh University's School of Law.


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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series



Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainments Series



The Sunday Philosophy Club Series



44 Scotland Street Series



Short story collections

  • 1991 ''Children of Wax: African Folk Tales''

  • 1995 ''Heavenly Date: And Other Flirtations''

  • 2004 ''The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales from Africa''



Children's books

  • 1984 ''The Perfect Hamburger''

  • 1988 ''Alix and the Tigers''

  • 1990 ''The Tin Dog''

  • 1991 ''Calculator Annie''

  • 1991 ''The Popcorn Pirates''

  • 1992 ''The Doughnut Ring''

  • 1994 ''Paddy and the Ratcatcher''

  • 1995 ''The Muscle Machine''

  • 1996 ''The Bubblegum Tree''

  • 1997 ''Bursting Balloons Mystery''

  • 1997 ''The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean''

  • 1999 ''Chocolate Money Mystery''

  • 2000 ''Teacher Trouble''

  • 2006 ''Akimbo and the Crocodile man



Academic texts

  • 1978 ''Power and Manoeuvrability'' (with Tony Carty )

  • 1983 ''Law and Medical Ethics'' (with , was published in 2006. McCall Smith contributed to all six previous editions.)

  • 1987 ''Butterworths Medico-Legal Encyclopaedia'' (with J Kenyon Mason )

  • 1990 ''Family Rights: Family Law and Medical Advances'' (with Elaine Sutherland )

  • 1992 ''The Criminal Law of Botswana'' (with Kwame Frimpong )

  • 1993 ''The Duty to Rescue'' (with Michael Menlowe , 1993)

  • 1992 ''Scots Criminal Law'' (with David H Sheldon , second edition published 1997)

  • 1997 ''Forensic Aspects of Sleep'' (with Colin Shapiro )

  • 2000 ''Justice and the Prosecution of Old Crimes'' (with Daniel W Shuman )

  • 2001 ''Errors, Medicine and the Law'' (with Alan Merry )

  • 2003 ''A Draft Criminal Code for Scotland'' (with Eric Clive , Pamela Ferguson and Christopher Gane )

  • 2004 ''Creating Humans: Ethical questions where reproduction and science collide'' (collected lectures, audio recordings)



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