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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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Portrait of Barbara Nadel

Nadel, Barbara
1950 -

Barbara Nadel is a British author of detective stories. She has offered little information about her personal details....

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Författarporträtt av Eco, Umberto

Eco, Umberto
1932 - 2016

Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary scholar, historian and philosopher born in Alessandria in Piedmont. His surname...

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Författarporträtt av Tagore, Rabindranath

Tagore, Rabindranath
1861 - 1941

Rabindranath Tagore (Thakur in Bengali) was and still is India's most influential author. Not only was he a poet, novelist...

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Författarporträtt av Shepard, Jim

Shepard, Jim
1956 -

Jim Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, with a Bachelor of Arts...

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