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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 Tagore, Rabindranath

Tagore, Rabindranath
1861 - 1941

Rabindranath Tagore (Thakur in Bengali) was and still is India's most influential author. Not only was he a poet, novelist...

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Författarporträtt av Huxley, Aldous

Huxley, Aldous
1894 - 1963

The British novelist, essayist, short story writer and critic Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming in Surrey. He belonged to...

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Portrait image of Pierre Boileau

Boileau, Pierre
1906 - 1989

Pierre Boileau was one half of the partnership (and the brand) Boileau-Narcejac, which can best be described as French...

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Portrait of John Le Carré

Le Carré, John
1931 - 2020

Born David John Moore Cornwell in Poole, county of Dorset, England, John le Carré grew up in a troubled home. While his ...

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