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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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Darwish, Mahmoud
1941 - 2008
The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was born in the village of al-Birweh in Western Gallilee to a landowning family. His...
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Kehlmann, Daniel
1975 -
The German/Austrian novelist, essayist and critic Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich. His mother was the German actress...
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Kennedy, William
1928 -
William Joseph Kennedy is an American author born in Albany, New York, to an Irish Catholic family. His father, William J.,...
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Herbert, James
1943 - 2013
James Herbert from England was one of the best-selling and most praised authors of horror fiction in the late 20th century....
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