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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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Timm, Uwe
1940 -
The German author Uwe Timm was born in Hamburg as the third and youngest child of the family. His father fought in the...
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Milne, A.A.
1882 - 1956
English writer, poet and journalist who became world famous for having created one of the most beloved figures in...
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Shelley, Mary
1797 - 1851
The author Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was born in England as the daughter of the pioneering feminist Mary...
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Müller, Herta
1953 -
Herta Müller was born in the village of Nițchidorf in the Banat region of south-western Romania to parents from the G...
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