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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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Rinehart, Mary Roberts
1876 - 1958
Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American author. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, today part of Pittsburgh. Her...
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O'Donnell, Peter
1920 - 2010
Peter O’Donnell was a British author born in Lewisham, London, to an Irish family. His father was a well-known crime r...
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Futrelle, Jacques
1875 - 1912
The American journalist and author Jacques Heath Futrelle made sure there was room for his wife in a lifeboat before he...
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Dahl, Kjell Ola
1958 -
Kjell Ola Dahl is a Norwegian author and farmer born in Gjøvik, Oppland, north of Oslo. He grew up in Kristiansand, Oslo ...
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