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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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Innes, Hammond
1913 - 1998

Pseudonym used by the British novelist Ralph Hammond-Innes who was born in Horsham, Sussex, to Scottish parents. He...

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Gulik, Robert van
1910 - 1967

Robert Hans van Gulik was born in Zutphen, the Netherlands, and grew up in Batavia (now Jakarta) in the former Dutch East...

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Författarporträtt av Roslund, Anders

Roslund, Anders
1961 -

Nils Anders Micael Roslund grew up in the county of Scania, Sweden. He lived from time to time at the home of his...

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Författarporträtt av Persson, Leif G.W.

Persson, Leif G.W.
1945 -

Leif Gustav Willy Persson is a Swedish author and criminologist who previously worked for the Swedish Police and the...

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