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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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Jonasson, Jonas
1961 -
Jonas Jonasson grew up "happy and untroubled" as Pär-Ola Jonasson in the Swedish town of Växjö in the 1960s. His father's na...
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Grass, Günter
1927 - 2015
Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German author born in Danzig (present-day Gdansk in Poland) to German-Polish parents. His father ...
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Pronzini, Bill
1943 -
The extremely prolific American author William John "Bill" Pronzini is the prize-winning author of over a hundred works of...
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Lagercrantz, David
1962 -
David Lagercrantz is a Swedish author and journalist born in Solna and brought up there and in Drottningholm, both near...
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