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Cornwell, Patricia D.
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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Jansson, Anna
The Swedish crime writer Anna Jansson was born in Visby on the island of Gotland. In 1979, she moved to Örebro where she attended nursing college. She has recounted that she couldn’t stand the sight of blood, so for the next twenty-five years she worked in the hospital’s lung department. She still lives in Örebro, although she spent a great deal of time writing in nearby Vintrosa and she has a sec...