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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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Portrait of James Ellroy

Ellroy, James
1948 -

Having revolutionized crime fiction in terms of language and style, James Ellroy is now one of America’s foremost c...

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Portrait image of André Bjerke

Bjerke, André
1918 - 1985

André Bjerke was a prominent figure on the Norwegian culture scene in the 1990s. He was an authority on Norwegian post-war ...

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Portrait image of Lindsey Davis

Davis, Lindsey
1949 -

Lindsey Davis is a British crime writer born in Birmingham where she attended the King Edward VI High School for Girls...

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Författarporträtt av Bauer, Belinda

Bauer, Belinda
1962 -

As a child, the British author Belinda Bauer spent ten years in South Africa during apartheid. Her father was a dentist...

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