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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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Lessing, Doris
1919 - 2013
The British author Doris May Lessing was born in Kermanshah in Persia (present-day Iran) and grew up in South Rhodesia...
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Swift, Jonathan
1667 - 1745
The Anglo-Irish author and satirist Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland. His cousin was the English poet and...
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Fluke, Joanne
1943 -
American writer Joanne Fischmann has written books in popular fiction genres, using a series of pseudonyms and name...
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Lee, Harper
1926 - 2016
Nelle Harper Lee was an American author who grew up in the town of Monroeville, Alabama, as the youngest of four siblings....
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