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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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Qiu Xiaolong
1953 -
Qiu Xiaolong is a Chinese author, poet, translator and scholar. He was born in Shanghai and grew up in post-revolution...
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Abrahams, Peter (1947-)
1947 -
Peter Abrahams is an American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he also grew up. Summer holidays were spent in...
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Voors, Barbara
1967 -
Barbara Voors was born in Stockholm and grew up in Tehran, Iran, with her Swedish mother, who worked at the Swedish...
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Millás, Juan José
1946 -
Spanish author and journalist born in Valencia as the fourth of nine siblings. The family moved to the outskirts of Madrid...
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