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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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Truc, Olivier
1964 -
The French author Olivier Truc is a journalist and war correspondent. Truc has been working for Le Monde in Scandinavia and...
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Colette, Gabrielle
1873 - 1954
French author, born in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye in Bourgogne. Her real name was Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, but as an author...
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Hughes, Ted
1930 - 1998
English poet born in Mytholmroyd in the West Riding of Yorkshire. When he was seven years old, the family moved to...
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Chekhov, Anton
1860 - 1904
By the time the Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov died from consumption only 44 years old, he had written some 600...
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