Alexander McCall Smith
			
			
			
			
				
					| Full Name: | 
					R.
Alexander
McCall Smith | 
				
				
					| Born: | 
					August 24, 1948 Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) | 
				
				
				
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					Writer | 
				
				
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					British | 
				
				
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		Biography
		
		R. Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, (born 24 August 1948) is a Rhodesian-born 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.
		
		
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