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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 Eliot, T.S.

Eliot, T.S.
1888 - 1965

Thomas Stearns Eliot grew up in St. Louis, the gate to the Wild West. His father was a businessman and his mother a former...

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Blom, K. Arne
1946 - 2021

The Swedish author K. (Karl) Arne Blom was born in Nässjö where he passed his baccalaureate in 1967. Later the same year, h...

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LaPlante, Alice
1958 -

American author, journalist and teacher, who has written technical books in different subjects as well as psychological...

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Författarporträtt av Morante, Elsa

Morante, Elsa
1912 - 1985

The Italian author Elsa Morante was born in Rome, where she grew up in the poor working-class district of Testaccio. She...

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