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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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Mattson, Ellen
1962 -

Ellen Mattson was born in Uddevalla in the county of Bohuslän, western Sweden, where she grew up in the countryside south ...

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Författarporträtt av Delany, Samuel R.

Delany, Samuel R.
1942 -

American science fiction author born in Harlem, New York. Samuel Ray Delany Jr. grew up above his father's funeral parlour....

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Författarporträtt av Smith, Zadie

Smith, Zadie
1975 -

Zadie Smith, born Sadie Adeline Smith, grew up in Kilburn and Willesden Green, north-west London, with her two younger...

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Författarporträtt av Davies, Robertson

Davies, Robertson
1913 - 1995

The Canadian author Roberson Davies was born in Thamesville, Ontario. His father, William Davies, had moved to Canada from...

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