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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 Gerhardsen, Carin

Gerhardsen, Carin
1962 -

Carin Behrman, as she was called in those days, was born and grew up in Katrineholm. Her father was a judge at the...

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Författarporträtt av Pym, Barbara

Pym, Barbara
1913 - 1980

Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was born in Oswestry, Shropshire, near the Welsh border where she grew up with her younger sister...

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Författarporträtt av Bernhard, Thomas

Bernhard, Thomas
1931 - 1989

Thomas Bernhard was born near Maastricht in the Netherlands and grew up in Henndorf, Austria. He never knew his father, who...

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Portrait image of Ruth Lillegraven

Lillegraven, Ruth
1978 -

Norwegian poet, novelist and author of books for children, Ruth Lillegraven was born in Granvin in Hardanger, and grew up...

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