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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 Cole, G.D.H.

Cole, G.D.H.
1889 - 1959

He was born in Cambridge as George Douglas Howard Cole, but got his basic schooling at St. Paul’s School in London. He s...

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Författarporträtt av Ginsberg, Allen

Ginsberg, Allen
1926 - 1997

American poet born in Newark, New Jersey. His father, Louis, was also a poet and teacher. His mother was a Russian,...

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Författarporträtt av Faulkner, William

Faulkner, William
1897 - 1962

In reality William Cuthbert Falkner, American author, born in New Albany, Mississippi but raised mainly in Oxford in the...

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Författarporträtt av Kemelman, Harry

Kemelman, Harry
1908 - 1996

Harry Kemelman was an American mystery writer and professor of English. He was born in Boston to Russian-Jewish immigrant...

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