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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 Lawrence Block

Block, Lawrence
1938 -

Lawrence Block is an American author of crime fiction born in Buffalo. He attended Antioch College, Ohio, between 1955 and...

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Portrait image of Johan Theorin

Theorin, Johan
1963 -

Johan Theorin is a Swedish author and journalist. He was born in Gothenburg and grew up in Nora, where he moved with his...

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Portrait of Dean R. Koontz

Koontz, Dean R.
1945 -

Dean Ray Koontz is an American author of suspense literature. He was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a...

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Portrait of Stella Rimington

Rimington, Stella
1935 -

Dame Stella Rimington is a British author of spy novels. She is a former intelligence officer, she was the first female...

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