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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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Boccaccio, Giovanni
1313 - 1375
Italian Renaissance author. His place of birth is uncertain; he was either born in Paris or Florence as the illegitimate...
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McCarthy, Cormac
1933 - 2023
American author, playwright and screenwriter born as Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. Because of the family's Irish roots his...
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Woolrich, Cornell
1903 - 1968
The American author Cornell Woolrich is one of the more eccentric authors of the 20th century. He was an anti-social...
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Hare, Cyril
1900 - 1958
Under the pseudonym Cyril Hare, the English jurist A.A. (Alfred Alexander) Gordon Clark is a prominent name in British...
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