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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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Rhea, Nicholas
1936 - 2017
Nicholas Rhea is a pseudonym for Peter Norman Walker, a British author and former police officer who has written over a...
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Elkins, Aaron
1935 -
Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College,...
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Coles, Manning
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Manning Coles is a joint pseudonym for the English duo Adelaide Manning and Cyril Coles, who also worked together under...
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Retif de la Bretonne, Nicolas-Edmé
1734 - 1806
Nicolas-Edmé Retif (or Restif) de la Bretonne was a French author born in the village of Sacy near Auxerre, the capital of ...
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