Alexander McCall Smith

Sir Alexander McCall Smith, known as Sandy, is a Rhodesian and Zimbabwean-Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction, born on 24 August 1948. He was born and raised in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh, becoming an expert on medical law and bioethics. He has since become known as a fiction writer, with sales in English exceeding forty million by 2010 and translations into forty-six languages, and he created The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.