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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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Modiano, Patrick
1945 -
Reluctant to talk about himself in the beginning of his career, Patrick Modiano claimed that he was born in 1947. It has...
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Hart, John
1965 -
John Hart is considered to be one of the great names in American crime fiction during the 21st century. All of his books...
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Vigny, Alfred de
1797 - 1863
Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny, was a French author born in the town of Loches near Tours in central France as the son of a...
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Lewis, Sinclair
1885 - 1951
American author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. His father was a country doctor and his mother...
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