Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (novel)
Content:  This novel was released in 1998 in Scotland. This novel and the next two in the series were released at one time in the US, in 2002.
Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Content:  (2001), both forthcoming in the series." In an item from the Wisconsin Public Radio program, To the Best of Our Knowledge, the first novel "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, was a surprise hit [in Scotland], receiving two special Booker citations and a place on the Times Literary Supplement's International Books of the Year and the Millennium list." The UK success did not speed publishers to release it in the USA. "American publishers were slow to take an interest, and by the time The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency was picked up by Pantheon Books, Smith had already written two sequels. The books went from underground hits to national phenomena in the United States, spawning fan clubs and inspiring 
Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Content:  The readership was at first small, then gained abruptly in popularity in the US and in England, beyond the author's home in Scotland. The initial books were published in Scotland. Per Kirkus Reviews, the early novels in this series had their American publication later than in the UK, which published the first in 1998, the second in 2000, and the third, Morality for Beautiful Girls, in 2001. The first three novels appeared in 2002 in the USA. In their review of the first novel in the series, Kirkus Reviews notes that "The first American publication of this 1999 debut has been preceded by two special Booker citations and two sequels, Tears of the Giraffe (2000) and Morality for Beautiful 
Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (novel)
Content: 1) The Daddy ; 2) All Those Years Ago ; 3) Lessons about Boys and Goats ; 4) Living with the Cousin and the Cousin's Husband ; 5) What You Need to Open a Detective Agency ; 6) The Boy ; 7) Mma Makutsi Deals with the Mail ; 8) A Conversation with Mr J.L.B. Matekoni ; 9) The Boyfriend ; 10) Mma Ramotswe Thinks about the Land while Driving her Tiny White Van to Francistown ; 11) Big Car Guilt ; 12) Mma Ramotswe's House in Zebra Drive ; 13) Why Don't You Marry Me? ; 14) Handsome Man ; 15) Mr J.L.B Matekoni's Discovery ; 16) The Cutting of Fingers and Snakes ; 17) The Third Metacarpal ; 18) A Lot of Lies ; 19) Mr Charlie Gotso, BA ; 20) Medical Matters ; 21) The Witchdoctor's Wife ; 22) Mr J.L.B Matekoni 
Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Content:  reviews." In the Company of Cheerful Ladies was the first of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels to be printed in hardback, with a very large initial print run of 101,000 copies to meet the anticipated demand, as sales in English of the series to date, in 2004, exceeded five million. There was an interesting pathway for knowledge and appreciation of the series by McCall Smith, a Scot, featuring Precious Ramotswe, the female detective in Botswana, to reach England. In reviewing the fifth novel in the series, Marcel Berlins describes the pathway of the growing audience, requiring one to understand that although Scotland and England are part of the same kingdom, the residents do not read the 
Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Content:  gentle, compassionate and exotic." This was the first of the novels available in England (see Publication history). Despite its proximity to Scotland, awareness and availability of the novels in England came after their popularity in the US. The novels have been reviewed in other languages than the original English; for example, this generally favourable review of the series up to the novel published in 2014, The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café, in a Czech online magazine: "Alexander McCall Smith, however, can enrich the stories of his everyday heroes with a profoundly human understanding of man's weaknesses". In 2004, the year of the sixth novel's publication, Alexander McCall Smith won the Author of the Year award at the British Book Awards and the Crime Writers Association Dagger in the Library award, both for the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (novel)
Content:  An adaptation for the screen The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency was made in 2007, directed by Anthony Minghella (who also co-wrote the screenplay), and scripted by Richard Curtis. A series of six programs for television was made jointly by the BBC, HBO and some other production companies. The first was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 television on Easter Sunday 23 March 2008.
Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Content:  problems for them. The novels are as much about the adventures and foibles of different characters as they are about solving mysteries. Each book in the series follows from the previous book. The readership was at first small, then gained abruptly in popularity in the US and in England, beyond the author's home in Scotland. In 2004, sales in English exceeded five million, and the series has been translated to other languages. Critical reception has matched the sales of the novels, generally positive, and considering the strength of the novels to be in the characters and Mma Ramotswe's wisdom rather than in the specific mysteries solved in each novel. The novels have been adapted for radio by the author and for television.
Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Content:  The novels have been adapted both for radio and television.
Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (novel)
Content:  The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is the first detective novel in the eponymous series by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, first published in 1998. The novel introduces the Motswana Mma Precious Ramotswe, who begins the first detective agency in Botswana, in the capital city Gaborone, after her beloved father dies. She hires a secretary and solves cases for her clients. Precious tells her own story, from birth, and her father tells his story. When her father dies, she moves from Mochudi to Gaborone, the capital city, to begin her detective agency. She solves three cases, and meets important new people, her secretary Grace Makutsi and good friend, the excellent mechanic, Mr JLB Matekoni. The novel was first published in Scotland, where it gained a following. After two more novels in the series were published, all three were published in the US to much acclaim; in 2002, for example, Publishers Weekly called it a "little gem of a book". The series did not catch on in England, despite being so close to Scotland, until the fifth novel in the series.

Question: Who is the author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency?
Answer: Alexander McCall Smith.
Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith.