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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 Bach, Tamara

Bach, Tamara
1976 -

Tamara Bach was born in the town of Limburg an der Lahn. When she was eight years old she moved with her family to...

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Författarporträtt av Jacobsen, Roy

Jacobsen, Roy
1954 -

Norwegian author born in Oslo where he grew up in a working-class suburb, but he spent his teenage years in North Norway....

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Coben, Harlan
1962 -

Harlan Coben is an American author who grew up in a Jewish family in Livingston, New Jersey. He graduated from Livingston...

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Cain, James M.
1892 - 1977

The American author and journalist James Mallahan Cain was a prominent figure in 20th century fiction. Alongside Dashiell...

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