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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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Gardner, Erle Stanley
1889 - 1970
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who...
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Fox, Candice
1985 -
Australian crime-fiction writer and teacher, born and raised in Bankstown, which is close to Sydney where she now lives....
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Wilson, Robert
1957 -
The crime novelist Robert Wilson was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire. His father was a Royal Airforce fighter pilot, and the...
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Carr, John Dickson
1906 - 1977
American author of detective stories born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His father was a criminal lawyer and politician who...
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