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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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Bagley, Desmond
1923 - 1983
British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake...
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Lesage, Alain René
1668 - 1747
Alain-René Lesage was a French playwright and novelist born in Bretagne. He read law in Paris and practiced briefly before ...
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Clarke, Arthur C.
1917 - 2008
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British science writer and author of science fiction books born in Minehead, Somerset....
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Mattson, Ellen
1962 -
Ellen Mattson was born in Uddevalla in the county of Bohuslän, western Sweden, where she grew up in the countryside south ...
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