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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 Powys, John Cowper

Powys, John Cowper
1872 - 1963

John Cowper Powys was a novelist, essayist, philosopher, poet and lecturer born in Shirley, Derbyshire as the son of the...

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Portrait of Lynda La Plante

La Plante, Lynda
1943 -

Lynda La Plante is a British author, television producer and actor born Lynda Titchmarsh in Formby near Liverpool. Her...

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Författarporträtt av Toussaint, Jean-Philippe

Toussaint, Jean-Philippe
1957 -

Belgian author and filmer, born in Brussels. He spent a large part of his youth in Paris, where he eventually also came to...

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Författarporträtt av Voors, Barbara

Voors, Barbara
1967 -

Barbara Voors was born in Stockholm and grew up in Tehran, Iran, with her Swedish mother, who worked at the Swedish...

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