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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 image of Ivan Turgenjev

Turgenev, Ivan
1818 - 1883

The Russian author and nobleman Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev grew up on an estate in Oryol, central Russia. His father was a...

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Murdoch, Iris
1919 - 1999

The British author and philosopher Jean Iris Murdoch was of both English and Irish stock. She was born in Dublin to...

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Författarporträtt av Ørstavik, Hanne

Ørstavik, Hanne
1969 -

The Norwegian author Hanne Ørstavik was born in the village of Tana in the northern province of Finnmark where many of her ...

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Författarporträtt av McCarthy, Cormac

McCarthy, Cormac
1933 - 2023

American author, playwright and screenwriter born as Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. Because of the family's Irish roots his...

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