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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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Duve, Karen
1961 -
The German author Karen Duve was born in Hamburg. After she graduated from upper-secondary school in 1981, she worked as a...
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Waugh, Evelyn
1903 - 1966
Evelyn Arthur Saint John Waugh was born in London. His father was a publisher and his older brother Alec a novelist and...
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Warner, Alan
1964 -
Alan Warner is a Scottish author born in Connel near Oban on the west coast of Scotland. He grew up in a working class...
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Grimes, Martha
1931 -
Martha Grimes is an American author of detective stories born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a lawyer, died when...
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