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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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McEwan, Ian
1948 -
Ian Russel McEwan is an English author and screenwriter born in Aldershot, Hampshire. His father was a major, and Ian...
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Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
1874 - 1929
The Austrian author Hugo von Hofmannsthal was born in Vienna. His father was a bank manager. As a young man, von...
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Jewell, Lisa
1968 -
Lisa Jewell is a British author of chic lit fiction. She grew up in Totteridge, north London as the oldest of three...
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Yorke, Margaret
1924 - 2012
Margaret Yorke is the pseudonym of the popular English author of crime fiction Margaret Nicholson. She has been described...
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