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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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Keeler, Harry Stephen
1890 - 1967
The American author Harry Stephen Keeler was one of a kind. He wrote some seventy novels that are a blend of crime fiction,...
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Christie, Agatha
1890 - 1976
English detective writer, born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in an affluent middle-class home in Torquay in Devon County....
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Harrison, Harry
1925 - 2012
The Irish-American author and illustrator Harry (Henry Maxwell) Harrison wrote virtually only science fiction and fantasy....
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Høeg, Peter
1957 -
The Danish author Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen and grew up in the inner-city district of Christianshavn. His mother ...
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