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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 Mats Wahl

Wahl, Mats
1945 -

Mats Wahl was born in Malmö and grew up with his grandparents in Slite on the island of Gotland from the age of two after ...

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Författarporträtt av Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne

Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
1832 - 1910

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson was a Norwegian author born in Kvikne as the son of a pastor. When he was five years old, the family s...

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Författarporträtt av Starrett, Vincent

Starrett, Vincent
1886 - 1974

American Vincent Starrett was what in English is known as a ‘bookman’. He devoted his life and his professional activities to...

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Författarporträtt av Gorky, Maxim

Gorky, Maxim
1868 - 1936

Russian author, born and raised in Nizhny Novgorod at the Volga River. His real name was Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, but he...

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