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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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Portrait of Anna Gavalda

Gavalda, Anna
1970 -

Anna Gavalda grew up in the Paris middle-class suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt. For as long as she can remember, she has...

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Författarporträtt av Bentley, E.C.

Bentley, E.C.
1875 - 1956

Edmund Clerihew Bentley was a novelist, critic, man of letters and close friend of Hilaire Belloc, John Buchan, G. K....

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Portrait of Bodo Kirchhoff

Kirchhoff, Bodo
1948 -

The German novelist and playwright Bodo Kirchhoff was born in Hamburg and grew up in South Germany. His mother was an...

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Författarporträtt av Woolf, Virginia

Woolf, Virginia
1882 - 1941

The English author Virginia Woolf, born Stephen, grew up in an educated higher middle-class family in Hyde Park in London....

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