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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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LaPlante, Alice
1958 -

American author, journalist and teacher, who has written technical books in different subjects as well as psychological...

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Författarporträtt av Lewis, Sinclair

Lewis, Sinclair
1885 - 1951

American author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. His father was a country doctor and his mother...

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Crispin, Edmund
1921 - 1978

Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of...

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Portrait of William Boyd

Boyd, William
1952 -

The British author William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana. His father, a doctor, and his mother, a teacher, moved to The...

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