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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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Grisham, John
1955 -
American author, lawyer and politician born in Jonesboro, Arkansas. His father was a construction worker who travelled...
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Adams, Douglas
1952 - 2001
Douglas Noel Adams was a British author born in Cambridge. His father had studied theology, but worked as a probation...
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Miller, Arthur
1915 - 2005
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and author born in New York. His father, a Jewish schoolteacher from...
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Diski, Jenny
1947 - 2016
The British author Jenny Diski was born in London as Jenny Simmonds. She had a traumatic childhood with a father who...
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