biography
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Cornwell, Patricia (Daniels)
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1957– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Miami, Florida, USA. After an unsettled childhood, she studied at Davidson College, North Carolina. Working as a police reporter, and (from 1984) in the Virginia medical examiner's office, she gained a wide range of experience which she put to use in her novels. In the 1990s she became one of the world's best-selling women novelists, producing a book each year, and known especially for the character of medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta introduced in her first novel Postmortem (1990). Later books include Body of Evidence (1991), Cause of Death (1996), the first non-Scarpetta mystery, Hornet's Nest (1997), Black Notice (1999), and Isle of Dogs (2001). Her very first book was A Time for Remembering (1983), a biography of Ruth Bell Graham (wife of Billy Graham), with whom she was in close contact as a child. |
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