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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 Amitav Ghosh

Ghosh, Amitav
1956 -

Amitav Ghosh is among the most prominent of a generation of Anglo-Indian writers that came to the fore in the 1980s. He was...

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Författarporträtt av Brecht, Bertolt

Brecht, Bertolt
1898 - 1956

German poet, playwright and essayist born in Augsburg where his father was the managing director of a paper mill. Brecht...

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Författarporträtt av Hofmannsthal, Hugo von

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
1874 - 1929

The Austrian author Hugo von Hofmannsthal was born in Vienna. His father was a bank manager. As a young man, von...

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Författarporträtt av Bloch, Robert

Bloch, Robert
1917 - 1994

Robert Albert Bloch was born in Chicago. He moved with his family to Milwaukee in Wisconsin when he was ten years old. His...

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