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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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Blunt, Giles
1952 -
Giles Blunt is a Canadian author, born in North Bay, Ontario, to English parents. He attended Scollard Hall, a Catholic...
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Sten, Viveca
1959 -
Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm...
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Andrić, Ivo
1892 - 1975
Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav writer born to Bosnian Croat parents of humble origins in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...
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Hamsun, Knut
1859 - 1952
The Norwegian author Knut Hamsun was born as Knut Pedersen at Lom in the Gudbrandsdalen valley, but from 1862 he was...
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