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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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Hornung, E.W.
1866 - 1921
The English teacher and journalist Ernest William Hornung (Willie to his family) was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s b...
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Smith, Julie
1944 -
American author and published, was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and grew up in Savannah in Georgia. She studied Creative...
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Salinger, J.D.
1919 - 2010
American author born in New York to a successful Jewish lawyer and cheese importer, and his Scottish-Irish wife. The family...
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Blake, William
1757 - 1827
The English author and artist William Blake was born and spent most of his life in London. His father was a hosier, but his...
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