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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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Wentworth, Patricia
1878 - 1961
"Patricia Wentworth" was born Dora Amy Elles in Mussoorie, India, during the British Raj. Her father was an army officer,...
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McEwan, Ian
1948 -
Ian Russel McEwan is an English author and screenwriter born in Aldershot, Hampshire. His father was a major, and Ian...
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Tartt, Donna
1963 -
The American novelist Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood and grew up in Grenada, both in the State of Mississippi. She...
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Warner, Alan
1964 -
Alan Warner is a Scottish author born in Connel near Oban on the west coast of Scotland. He grew up in a working class...
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