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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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Orczy, Emmuska
1865 - 1947
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi, or Emmuska, which she preferred to be called, was born in...
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Grossman, David
1954 -
David Grossman is an Israeli author and journalist born in Jerusalem to Polish Jewish parents. His father, Yitzhak...
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Kehlmann, Daniel
1975 -
The German/Austrian novelist, essayist and critic Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich. His mother was the German actress...
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Gardell, Jonas
1963 -
Jonas Gardell was born and grew up in the garden suburb of Enebyberg outside Stockholm. Both of his parents were...
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