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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 Vieira, José Luandino

Vieira, José Luandino
1935 -

José Luandino Vieira Mateus de Graça, which is his complete name, was born in Lagoa do Furadouro in Portugal. As a small b...

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Portrait image of Freeman Wills Crofts

Crofts, Freeman Wills
1879 - 1957

Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young....

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Författarporträtt av Johnson, Eyvind

Johnson, Eyvind
1900 - 1976

Swedish author, born in Svartbjörnsbyn in the province of Norrbotten. When his father, who had been working with ...

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Författarporträtt av Andrić, Ivo

Andrić, Ivo
1892 - 1975

Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav writer born to Bosnian Croat parents of humble origins in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...

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