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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 Izner, Claude

Izner, Claude
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Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, are the two sisters behind the pseudonym Claude Izner. Their father was a bookseller, a ...

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Författarporträtt av Bergman, Hjalmar

Bergman, Hjalmar
1883 - 1931

Hjalmar Bergman was born in Örebro as the son of a bank manager, Claes Bergman, and his wife Fredrique, born Elgérus. As a l...

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Författarporträtt av Keller, Gottfried

Keller, Gottfried
1819 - 1890

Gottfried Keller was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His father was a lathe-worker who died in 1824. Keller grew up in poverty...

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Författarporträtt av Gardell, Jonas

Gardell, Jonas
1963 -

Jonas Gardell was born and grew up in the garden suburb of Enebyberg outside Stockholm. Both of his parents were...

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