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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 Albee, Edward

Albee, Edward
1928 - 2016

Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright born in Washington DC. His parents abandoned him immediately after he...

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Författarporträtt av Brink, André

Brink, André
1935 - 2015

André Brink was a South-African author born in Vrede, the Orange Free State of South Africa. His father was a magistrate ...

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Författarporträtt av Grimsrud, Beate

Grimsrud, Beate
1963 - 2020

The Norwegian novelist, playwright and filmmaker Beate Grimsrud was born in Bærum, a suburb of Oslo, where she grew up with ...

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Författarporträtt av Undset, Sigrid

Undset, Sigrid
1882 - 1949

The Norwegian author and Nobel Laureate Sigrid Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark. Her mother was Danish. Already in...

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