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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 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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Författarporträtt av Kepler, Lars

Kepler, Lars
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Lars Kepler is the alias that the two writers and married couple Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril use when...

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Författarporträtt av Rubinstein, Gillian

Rubinstein, Gillian
1942 -

Gillian Rubinstein was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, but she spent her teenage years in Nigeria and at...

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Författarporträtt av Stein, Gertrude

Stein, Gertrude
1874 - 1946

Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in a family of well-educated, cultured German Jews. Her father, Daniel...

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