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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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Hugo, Victor
1802 - 1885
The French author Victor Hugo (Victor-Marie Hugo) was born in Besançon. His father was of one of Napoleon's generals. As a ...
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Vallgren, Carl-Johan
1964 -
Carl-Johan Emanuel Vallgren has never been sure about whether he should focus on music or on writing. He studied music and...
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Rawson, Clayton
1906 - 1971
Clayton Rawson was an American editor, illustrator and author of whodunits and pulp fiction. He specialised in locked room...
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Bailey, H.C.
1878 - 1961
The British journalist and critic Henry Christopher Bailey is one of the five greatest crime novelists associated with the...
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