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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 Smith, Julie

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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Författarporträtt av Gautier, Théophile

Gautier, Théophile
1811 - 1872

French author and critic born in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, to a family originally from Provence. His father was a minor g...

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Lagercrantz, David
1962 -

David Lagercrantz is a Swedish author and journalist born in Solna and brought up there and in Drottningholm, both near...

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Författarporträtt av Hoffmann, E.T.A.

Hoffmann, E.T.A.
1776 - 1822

The German author, composer and artist E.T.A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus, originally Ernst Theodor Wilhelm) Hoffmann was born...

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