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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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Cixous, Hélène
1937 -
The French philosopher, scholar and author Hélène Cixous is a leading post-structuralist feminist scholar alongside Luce I...
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Tzara, Tristan
1896 - 1963
Tristan Tzara was a French-Romanian poet born in the city of Moinesti, Romania, as Samuel Rosenstock. He began to use the...
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Le Clézio, Jean-Marie Gustave
1940 -
French author, born and raised in Nice. His parents were British citizens with roots in Bretagne and in Mauritius in the...
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Koontz, Dean R.
1945 -
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author of suspense literature. He was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a...
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