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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 Zola, Émile

Zola, Émile
1840 - 1902

French author, born in Paris and raised in Aix-en-Provence. His father, who was Italian and a successful site engineer,...

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Portrait of Janet Evanovich

Evanovich, Janet
1943 -

An American writer, born as Janet Schneider in South River, New Jersey. As a child, she preferred drawing over writing, and...

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Författarporträtt av Ani, Friedrich

Ani, Friedrich
1959 -

Friedrich Ani was born in Kochel am See, Bavaria. His father was Syrian and his mother was born in Silesia. After...

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Författarporträtt av Fish, Robert L.

Fish, Robert L.
1912 - 1981

Robert Lloyd Fish was an American author of crime fiction that encompassed everything from thrillers and hardboiled crime...

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