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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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Bailey, H.C.
1878 - 1961
The British journalist and critic Henry Christopher Bailey is one of the five greatest crime novelists associated with the...
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Scott, Walter
1771 - 1832
Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a sickly child, and because he became partially lame, possibly as...
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Diderot, Denis
1713 - 1784
French author and philosopher born in the city of Langres in north-east France. He was the son of a wealthy knife maker and...
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Alexievich, Svetlana
1948 -
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ukraine three years after the Second World War. She grew up in a village in Belorussia...
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