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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 Pleijel, Agneta

Pleijel, Agneta
1940 -

The Swedish author and journalist Agneta Pleijel was born in Stockholm. She grew up in Stockholm, Lund and Princeton, USA....

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Författarporträtt av Gorky, Maxim

Gorky, Maxim
1868 - 1936

Russian author, born and raised in Nizhny Novgorod at the Volga River. His real name was Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, but he...

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Författarporträtt av Wolff, Tobias

Wolff, Tobias
1945 -

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American author. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up in the North Cascade...

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Airth, Rennie
1935 -

Little is known about Rennie Airth’s early life. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, trained as a journalist and s...

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