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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 Petterson, Per

Petterson, Per
1952 -

Norwegian author born in Oslo to a working class family with left-wing sympathies. His father was a logger of Swedish...

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Författarporträtt av Restrepo, Laura

Restrepo, Laura
1950 -

Laura Restrepo is a Latin-American journalist and author born in Bogotá, Colombia. She was the elder of two sisters who ...

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Författarporträtt av Fløgstad, Kjartan

Fløgstad, Kjartan
1944 -

Norwegian author born in the industrial city of Sauda. He has worked at the smelting plant in Sauda and on a Norwegian...

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Portrait of Faye Kellerman

Kellerman, Faye
1952 -

The American crime novelist Faye Marder Kellerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She moved with her family to Sherman...

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