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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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Whitman, Walt
1819 - 1892
Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, a village on Long Island, New York, as the second child of nine to Walter, a house...
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Richmond, Michelle
1970 -
The American author, publisher and teacher, Michelle Richmond was born as one of three sisters in Demopolis, Alabama, but...
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Yeats, William Butler
1865 - 1939
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin to an Anglo-Irish family, but he spent most of his life in England and France. His...
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Treichel, Hans-Ulrich
1952 -
The German author and scholar Hans-Ulrich Treichel was born in the town of Versmold, Westphalia, where his parents settled...
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