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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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Eggers, Dave
1970 -
American author, editor and publisher Dave Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Lake Forest, a small...
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Bragi, Steinar
1975 -
The Icelandic author Steinar Bragi grew up in Reykjavik. After graduation he read comparative literature and philosophy at...
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Cox, Anthony Berkeley
1893 - 1971
Anthony Berkeley Cox is regarded as one of the most influential authors in English crime literature during the inter-war...
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Manning, Olivia
1908 - 1980
The British novelist and short story writer Olivia Mary Manning was born in Portsmouth in 1908 (although some sources say...
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