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Alexander (R.A.A.) "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, (born August 24, 1948) is a Rhodesian-born Scottish writer and emeritus professor of medical law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In the late 20th 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, most widely known as the creator of the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 2.1 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series 2.2 Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainments Series 2.3 The Sunday Philosophy Club Series 2.4 The 44 Scotland Street Series 2.5 Short story collections 2.6 Children's books 2.7 Academic texts 3 External links

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 bassoonist, and co-founder of The Really Terrible Orchestra. He is also the author of a testimonial in The Future of the NHS (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.

• 1998 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
• 2000 Tears Of The Giraffe
• 2001 Morality for Beautiful Girls
• 2002 The Kalahari Typing School for Men
• 2004 The Full Cupboard of Life
• 2004 In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (also known as The Night-Time Dancer)
• 2006 Blue Shoes and Happiness
• 2007 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

• 2003 Portuguese Irregular Verbs
• 2003 The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
• 2003 At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

• 2004 The Sunday Philosophy Club
• 2005 Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
• 2006 The Right Attitude to Rain
• 2007 The Correct Use of Compliments

• 2005 44 Scotland Street
• 2005 Espresso Tales
• 2006 Love Over Scotland

• 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

• 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

• 1978 Power and Manoeuvrability (with Tony Carty)
• 1983 Law and Medical Ethics (with J Kenyon Mason) (this text has gone through several editions: a seventh, by Mason and Graeme Laurie, 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)

• Professor Alexander McCall Smith's home page at the Law School, University of Edinburgh
• Author's homepage at UK publishers Little, Brown
• Author's homepage at publishers Random House
• Favourite music, on Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 19th June 2005