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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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Morrison, Arthur
1863 - 1945
Arthur Morrison was one of Britain's best-known authors around the turn of the last century on account of his realistic...
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Allende, Isabel
1942 -
Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru, but she grew up in Chile. Her diplomat father left the family when Isabel was two...
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Hare, Cyril
1900 - 1958
Under the pseudonym Cyril Hare, the English jurist A.A. (Alfred Alexander) Gordon Clark is a prominent name in British...
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Wambaugh, Joseph
1937 -
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. is an American author and former detective sergeant. He is best known for his police...
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