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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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Propper, Milton M.
1906 - 1962
American crime writer and lawyer, born into a middle-class family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he also lived for...
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Coelho, Paulo
1947 -
Brazilian author born in Rio de Janeiro. After dropping out of law school he started travelling around Latin America,...
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Allbeury, Ted
1917 - 2005
The British author of espionage fiction Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury was born in Stockport, Cheshire. His father...
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Marsden, John
1950 -
John Marsden was born in Melbourne, Australia, and grew up in a series of small towns in the Australian outback. His father...
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