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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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Allingham, Margery
1904 - 1966
English crime writer born in Ealing, London, as the daughter of Herbert John Allingham and his wife and cousin Emily Jane...
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Esterházy, Péter
1950 - 2016
The Hungarian author Péter Esterházy was born into one of Hungary's wealthiest and most influential aristocratic families. H...
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Sagan, Françoise
1935 - 2004
Françoise Sagan got her pseudonym as an author from Duchess Sagan in Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" (À la r...
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Muñoz Molina, Anto
1956 -
The Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina was born at Úbeda in Jaén, Andalucia where he attended the Santo Domingo Savio Je...
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