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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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Runcie, James
1959 -
James Robert Runcie is an author, documentary film maker, television producer and playwright. He was born in Cambridge and...
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Shelley, Mary
1797 - 1851
The author Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was born in England as the daughter of the pioneering feminist Mary...
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Harris, Thomas
1940 -
American author who has become known for his thrillers with their atmosphere of horror about the doctor, psychopath and...
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Bulgakov, Mikhail
1891 - 1940
The Russian prose writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev and grew up in a snug middle class environment – h...
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