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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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Lathen, Emma
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Emma Lathen is the pseudonym that two American friends, the economist Mary Jane Latsis (1927–1997) and the financial lawyer M...
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Powell, Richard
1908 - 1999
Richard Powell was an author, journalist and advertising man born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he lived most of his...
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Cunningham, Michael
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Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, grew up in Pasadena, California, and studied at Stanford and the...
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Verlaine, Paul
1844 - 1896
Paul Verlaine, one of the finest early modern poets, was born in Metz in north-east France where his father, an army...
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