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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 Horace

Horace
65 BCE - November 27, 08 BCE.

The Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus is not only the most quoted and the most frequently translated poet of the...

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Skagen, Fredrik
1936 - 2017

Fredrik Skagen is one of Norway’s most popular award-winning crime writers. He was born in Trondheim where he lived all his l...

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Författarporträtt av Carver, Raymond

Carver, Raymond
1938 - 1988

American author who was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. His father was a sawmill worker with...

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Författarporträtt av Smith, Zadie

Smith, Zadie
1975 -

Zadie Smith, born Sadie Adeline Smith, grew up in Kilburn and Willesden Green, north-west London, with her two younger...

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