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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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Sundstøl, Vidar
1963 -
Vidar Sundstøl is a Norwegian author of crime fiction. He was born and raised at Vøllestad in the municipality of D...
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White, Patrick
1912 - 1990
Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author and Nobel Prize laureate born in London to a family of wealthy...
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Upfield, Arthur W.
1890 - 1964
Arthur W. Upfield is one of a small number of internationally famous Australian crime writers thanks to his novels about...
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Leonard, Elmore
1925 - 2013
The American author Elmore John Leonard, Jr. was born in New Orleans, but because his father worked for the automobile...
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