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Patricia Cornwell (1956- )
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| Patricia Cornwell was born June 9th 1956 in Miami, Florida. 1984 she took a job in the Virginia medical examiner's office. The award-winning former crime reporter for the Charlotte Observer spent six years working for the Virginia Chief Medical Examiner's Office and as a volunteer police officer before she wrote her first Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel, Postmortem . It received outstanding international acclaim and made her the only author ever to win five major mystery awards in a single year on both sides ofthe Atlantic for a first novel. Eleven subsequent Scarpetta novels became international bestsellers, together with Food to Die For and Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper- Case Closed .She is a graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina and she is also the author of three police procedural novels and A Time for Remembering , the biography of Ruth Graham, wife of the evangelist. She supports several institutions that are concerned with forensic research, victims' support, and animal rescue.
For more about Patricia Cornwell and her writing visit her web page:
http://www.patriciacornwell.com/
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