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Patricia Cornwell
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1956
Patricia Cornwell is an American writer and a pioneer of the forensic thriller, best known for her series featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.
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About Patricia Cornwell
Birth
1956
First book
1990
Years writing
36
Patricia Cornwell is an American writer and a pioneer of the forensic thriller, best known for her series featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.
She was born in Miami, Florida, on 9 June 1956.
Before turning to fiction she worked as a journalist and in the office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia.
Postmortem (1990), the first Scarpetta novel, won the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony and Macavity awards for crime fiction.
In the non-fiction book Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed she argues that painter Walter Sickert was the Ripper.
Her publishers report that she has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide.
