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  • It is 68 years today since Patricia D. Cornwell was born.

    The American crime writer Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida, as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ divorce she grew up with her mother in Montreat, North Carolina. She married her English professor after graduating from Davidson College and started to work as a journalist at the Charlotte Observer in 1979. She soon became the newspaper’s crime reporter. She has also worked as...

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Författarporträtt av Hugo, Victor

Hugo, Victor
1802 - 1885

The French author Victor Hugo (Victor-Marie Hugo) was born in Besançon. His father was of one of Napoleon's generals. As a ...

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Författarporträtt av Diski, Jenny

Diski, Jenny
1947 - 2016

The British author Jenny Diski was born in London as Jenny Simmonds. She had a traumatic childhood with a father who...

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Portrait of Alistair MacLean

MacLean, Alistair
1922 - 1987

The Scottish author Alistair Stuart MacLean was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, in a Gaelic-speaking family as Alasdair...

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Portrait of Nathalie Sarraute

Sarraute, Nathalie
1900 - 1999

The French author Nathalie Sarraute was born as Natalie Tcherniak in Ivanovo-Voznesensk in Russia. She grew up in an...

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