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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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Smith, Julie
1944 -
American author and published, was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and grew up in Savannah in Georgia. She studied Creative...
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Chatwin, Bruce
1940 - 1989
Bruce Chatwin was an English novelist and legendary travel writer. His father, Charles Chatwin, owned a law practice in...
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Mishima, Yukio
1925 - 1970
His real name is Kimitake Hiraoka, a Japanese author born in Tokyo, where he mainly grew up with his grandmother. His...
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Gardner, John (b. 1926)
1926 - 2007
John Edmund Gardner was a British novelist. He was born in the village of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland as the son of a...
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