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Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell is an American crime writer. She is known for her best-selling novels featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, of which the first was inspired by a series of sensational murders in Richmond, Virginia, where most of the stories are set. The plots are notable for their emphasis on forensic science, which has influenced later TV treatments of police work. Cornwell has also accused…
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culture · American crime writer (born 1956) · writer · novelist · journalist · art collector · crime fiction writer · reporter · also Patricia Cornwell, Patricia Carroll Daniels, Cornwell
Born 9 June 1956 · Q231467
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2026· 5 entries
“s when as she was found by police, the only one of the women to be murdered in her bed. Another showed a woman”
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“She is very gracious about it,”
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“s niece, the volatile Lucy. A life-long sufferer from bi-polar depression, she used to self-medicate with alcohol. In these manic phases, she thought nothing of spending $50,000 on clothes, or driving when drunk. By the time she met Gruber, most of these behaviours were in the past. It was not a conventional romance. Gruber refused to ride in Cornwell”
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Yahoo: Best-selling author Patricia Cornwell joins the show
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘I lived in a state of terror’: Patricia Cornwell on childhood trauma, her new novel and the search for Bigfoot
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2022· 1 entry
Flying: Patricia Cornwell’s Rotor Research
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2019· 1 entry
Yahoo: First look: Patricia Cornwell on launching a new thriller series with Quantum
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy to script Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta film
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2015· 3 entries
The Guardian: Patricia Cornwell: ‘I grew up with fear’
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The Guardian: Patricia Cornwell: how extreme sports changed my life
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The Guardian: Patricia Cornwell solves The Mystery of Edwin Drood in new show
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2013· 4 entries
The Guardian: Dust by Patricia Cornwell – review
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The Guardian: Patricia Cornwell wins $50m in damages
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The Guardian: Author Patricia Cornwell wins $51m in lawsuit over lost revenue
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The Guardian: Patricia Cornwell in courtroom drama over 'missing millions'
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2011· 1 entry
The Guardian: What I see in the mirror: Patricia Cornwell
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2010· 2 entries
The Guardian: Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell – review
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Brandeis University: Best-selling author Patricia Cornwell will screen 'The Front' Thursday
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2009· 1 entry
The Guardian: This much I know: Patricia Cornwell
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2007· 1 entry
During her libel suit against Sachs, Cornwell testified that Sachs had accused her in online postings of being a "Jew hater" and "neo-Nazi" who bribed judges, conspired to have him killed, and was under investigation by
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2006· 1 entry
Cornwell married Staci Gruber, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard University
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2004· 1 entry
Cornwell assigned management of her financial matters to New York-based Anchin, Block & Anchin, managed by principal Evan Snapper
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2002· 1 entry
And Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, published in 2017
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2001· 1 entry
Cornwell was criticized for allegedly destroying one of Sickert's paintings in pursuit of the Ripper's identity
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2000· 1 entry
Sent letters to Cornwell's publisher, started a web page, and placed stickers on copies of his novel alleging that Cornwell was committing plagiarism
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Gold Dagger for Cruel and Unusual (1993).
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Cornwell crashed her Mercedes-Benz while under the influence of alcohol
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Anthony Award for Best First Novel for Postmortem (1991).
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Awarded Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel for Postmortem (1991).
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded CWA New Blood Dagger for Postmortem (1990).
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Of the first installment of her Scarpetta series, Postmortem, based on real-life stranglings in Richmond in the summer of 1987
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1989· 3 entries
The couple separated, with Patricia retaining her married name after the divorce
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After Bennett's husband attempted to kidnap his estranged wife
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Cornwell had a relationship with FBI agent Marguerite "Margo" Bennett, which earned headlines in 1989 after Bennett's husband attempted to kidnap his estranged wife.
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1985· 1 entry
Took a job in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia
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1984· 1 entry
Cornwell began work on her first novel, about a male detective named Joe Constable
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1980· 1 entry
Received the North Carolina Press Association's Investigative Reporting Award for a series on prostitution
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1979· 1 entry
Cornwell began working as a reporter for The Charlotte Observer, initially editing TV listings, then moving to features, and finally becoming a reporter covering crime
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1961· 1 entry
Marilyn left with three children in tow and moved to Montreat, North Carolina
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1956· 2 entries
In Miami, Florida, second of three children, to Marilyn (née Zenner) and Sam Daniels
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Born 1956-06-09.
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