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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 Peer Hultberg

Hultberg, Peer
1935 - 2007

The Danish author and psychoanalyst Peer Hultberg was born in Vangede and grew up in Horsens and Viborg on the island of...

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Författarporträtt av Innes, Michael

Innes, Michael
1906 - 1994

Michael Innes is the pen name adopted by John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, a British author and professor of literature at...

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Författarporträtt av Warner, Alan

Warner, Alan
1964 -

Alan Warner is a Scottish author born in Connel near Oban on the west coast of Scotland. He grew up in a working class...

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Portrait of John (f. 1926) Gardner

Gardner, John (b. 1926)
1926 - 2007

John Edmund Gardner was a British novelist. He was born in the village of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland as the son of a...

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