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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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Dos Passos, John
1896 - 1970
American author born in Chicago as John Roderigo Dos Passos to a wealthy lawyer of Portuguese descent. As a child, Dos...
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856 - 1950
Irish author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Dublin to a middle-class family. His father was an alcoholic and his mother...
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Hamilton, Steve
1961 -
The American crime-fiction writer Steve Hamilton was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in White Lake in the same...
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Koestler, Arthur
1905 - 1983
The British author and journalist Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest to a Hungarian father and an Austrian mother who...
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