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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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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 Philips, Judson

Philips, Judson
1903 - 1989

American author and journalist, born in Northfield, Massachusetts. Judson P. (Pentecost) Philips has primarily become known...

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Portrait of Väinö Linna

Linna, Väinö
1920 - 1992

Finnish author born in Urjala as the seventh child in a working class family of ten children. His father, a butcher, died...

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Författarporträtt av Bach, Tamara

Bach, Tamara
1976 -

Tamara Bach was born in the town of Limburg an der Lahn. When she was eight years old she moved with her family to...

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