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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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Lowry, Malcolm
1909 - 1957
Clarence Malcolm Lowry was born on July 28, 1909, in the coastal town of Liscard near Liverpool. His father was a...
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Asimov, Isaac
1920 - 1992
Isaac Asimov was born as Isaak Yudovich Ozimov in a small town near Smolensk in the former Soviet Union. When he was three...
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Lessing, Doris
1919 - 2013
The British author Doris May Lessing was born in Kermanshah in Persia (present-day Iran) and grew up in South Rhodesia...
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Fish, Robert L.
1912 - 1981
Robert Lloyd Fish was an American author of crime fiction that encompassed everything from thrillers and hardboiled crime...
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