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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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De la Motte, Anders
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The Swedish author, and former police officer and security director, Anders de la Motte was born in Billesholm in...
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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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Kipling, Rudyard
1865 - 1936
British author born as Joseph Rudyard Kipling in Bombay where his father was the Principal as well as the Professor of...
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Keller, Gottfried
1819 - 1890
Gottfried Keller was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His father was a lathe-worker who died in 1824. Keller grew up in poverty...
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