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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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Författarporträtt av Claudel, Philippe

Claudel, Philippe
1962 -

French author and film director born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe near Nancy where he still lives together with his wife and...

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Portrait image of August Derleth

Derleth, August
1909 - 1971

American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. W...

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Författarporträtt av Walters, Minette

Walters, Minette
1949 -

Minette Walters is an author of crime fiction born Minette Jebb in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. Her father w...

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Portrait of Alistair MacLean

MacLean, Alistair
1922 - 1987

The Scottish author Alistair Stuart MacLean was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, in a Gaelic-speaking family as Alasdair...

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