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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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Portrait of Antonio Muñoz Molina

Muñoz Molina, Anto
1956 -

The Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina was born at Úbeda in Jaén, Andalucia where he attended the Santo Domingo Savio Je...

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Författarporträtt av Kunzru, Hari

Kunzru, Hari
1969 -

The British novelist Hari Kunzru was born in London to a Kashmiri Pandit father and an English mother. He read literature...

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Författarporträtt av Gogol, Nikolai

Gogol, Nikolai
1809 - 1852

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is one of the great Russian authors of the 19th century. He was born in the village of...

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Författarporträtt av Smith, Patti

Smith, Patti
1946 -

Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is a rock musician, poet and artist, the oldest of four siblings born in Chicago, Illinois. She...

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