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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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Gavalda, Anna
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Anna Gavalda grew up in the Paris middle-class suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt. For as long as she can remember, she has...
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Grandes, Almudena
1960 - 2021
Almudena Grandes Hernández was a Spanish author born in Madrid. After studies in geography and history she worked for a ...
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Koestler, Arthur
1905 - 1983
The British author and journalist Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest to a Hungarian father and an Austrian mother who...
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Crispin, Edmund
1921 - 1978
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of...
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