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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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Mishani, Dror
1975 -
Dror Mishani is an Israeli crime writer, born and raised in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon. He is also a translator, literary...
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Sappho
c. 630 BCE - c. 570 BCE
Thanks to the Athenian politician and poet Solon we know that the lyrical poet Sappho from the island of Lesbos was both...
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe
1792 - 1822
The English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in Sussex to a wealthy, aristocratic family. He went to Eton and Oxford, he...
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Kirchhoff, Bodo
1948 -
The German novelist and playwright Bodo Kirchhoff was born in Hamburg and grew up in South Germany. His mother was an...
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