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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 Smith, Zadie

Smith, Zadie
1975 -

Zadie Smith, born Sadie Adeline Smith, grew up in Kilburn and Willesden Green, north-west London, with her two younger...

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Författarporträtt av Camilleri, Andrea

Camilleri, Andrea
1925 - 2019

Italian author and theatre/film producer, born in the industrial town Porto Empedocle in Agrigento province on the south...

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Freemantle, Brian
1936 -

Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended...

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Författarporträtt av Cixous, Hélène

Cixous, Hélène
1937 -

The French philosopher, scholar and author Hélène Cixous is a leading post-structuralist feminist scholar alongside Luce I...

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