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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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Brink, André
1935 - 2015
André Brink was a South-African author born in Vrede, the Orange Free State of South Africa. His father was a magistrate ...
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Palmen, Connie
1955 -
Dutch author born to a Catholic family in Sint Odiliënberg, the Netherlands. In 1978, she went to Amsterdam to study ...
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Grimes, Martha
1931 -
Martha Grimes is an American author of detective stories born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a lawyer, died when...
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Huxley, Aldous
1894 - 1963
The British novelist, essayist, short story writer and critic Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming in Surrey. He belonged to...
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