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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 Trosell, Aino

Trosell, Aino
1949 -

Trosell is a Swedish writer, born in the town of Malung where she grew up in a blue-collar family. In 1967, Aino Trosell...

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Författarporträtt av Kipling, Rudyard

Kipling, Rudyard
1865 - 1936

British author born as Joseph Rudyard Kipling in Bombay where his father was the Principal as well as the Professor of...

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Författarporträtt av Thomas, Dylan

Thomas, Dylan
1914 - 1953

The Welsh poet Dylan Mariais Thomas spent his childhood and youth at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea, with his father, David...

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Författarporträtt av Seferis, Giorgos

Seferis, Giorgos
1900 - 1971

The first Nobel Prize laureate to come out of Greece was born Georgios Seferiades in Urla near Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey),...

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