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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 Proust, Marcel

Proust, Marcel
1871 - 1922

French author, born in the village of Auteuil. His father was a prominent physician who had worked himself up and...

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Portrait of Graham Swift

Swift, Graham
1949 -

British author born in Bermondsey, South London. Swift was brought up in a lower middle-class home in Croydon – a happy c...

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Författarporträtt av Muldoon, Paul

Muldoon, Paul
1951 -

The poet Paul Muldoon grew up on a farm near the village of Moy, Armagh, Northern Ireland. He was the oldest of three...

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Portrait image of Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Khemiri, Jonas Hassen
1978 -

Jonas Hassen Khemiri was born in Stockholm. After he finished school he attended the Stockholm School of Economics, he has...

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