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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 Enquist, Per Olov

Enquist, Per Olov
1934 - 2020

Swedish author, born and raised in a nonconformist environment at Hjoggböle, Bureå, Västerbotten. His father died early, an...

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Portrait of Don DeLillo

DeLillo, Don
1936 -

Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo is an American author born in New York City. He grew up in a Catholic working-class family in...

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Författarporträtt av James, Henry

James, Henry
1843 - 1916

Henry James was an American author born in New York to a wealthy, intellectual family of Irish and Scottish origin. His...

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Författarporträtt av Tartt, Donna

Tartt, Donna
1963 -

The American novelist Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood and grew up in Grenada, both in the State of Mississippi. She...

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