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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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Portrait of Len Deighton

Deighton, Len
1929 -

The British author Len Deighton was born as Leonard Cyril Deighton in London. His father was a chauffeur; his mother worked...

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Författarporträtt av Eriksson, Kjell

Eriksson, Kjell
1953 -

The Swedish author and gardener Kjell Eriksson was born in Uppsala, Sweden and grew up in a working-class family on...

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Författarporträtt av Lundberg, Ulla-Lena

Lundberg, Ulla-Lena
1947 -

The Finnish-Swedish author Ulla-Lena Lundberg spent the first years of her life on the island of Kökar in the Åland a...

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Portrait of Alberto Moravia

Moravia, Alberto
1907 - 1990

Alberto Pincherle Moravia was a dominating, though controversial, literary and intellectual figure in 20th century Italy....

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