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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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Tyler, Anne
1941 -

Anne Tyler is an American author who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in North Carolina. Her father, Lloyd...

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Författarporträtt av Cook, Robin (1940-)

Cook, Robin (1940-)
1940 -

American doctor, businessman and author, who has written a long row of thriller-like medical crime novels, many of which...

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Författarporträtt av Wolff, Tobias

Wolff, Tobias
1945 -

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American author. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up in the North Cascade...

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Författarporträtt av Allende, Isabel

Allende, Isabel
1942 -

Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru, but she grew up in Chile. Her diplomat father left the family when Isabel was two...

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