Patricia Carroll Daniels was born in 1956 in Miami, Florida. She went to Davidson College in North Carolina before she began her career, first as a journalist and then in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia. She wrote in her spare time and her first novel, Postmortem, was published in 1990.
Patricia Cornwell specialises in crime novels featuring forensic science, most of which centred around the medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. She has also written some non-fiction and one book for children. In all her books have sold over 100 million copies.
Did you know that Patricia Cornwell appeared as herself on Criminal Minds, the American police drama in the episode True Genius? See how much you know about her life and works, and maybe learn a little more about her by playing this quiz.
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Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Patricia's father was one of the leading lawyers in the United States at the time
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Postmortem was Cornwell's first novel and it won the 1991 Edgar Award for Best First Novel
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Marino is a detective sergeant in the Richmond Police Department
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She operates in Richmond, the state capital
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Brazil is a state trooper who works alongside Judy Hammer, the superintendent of Virginia State Police
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Her theory was that the killer was the English painter Walter Sickert
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Demi Moore was possibly going to star as Dr Kay Scarpetta, the heroine of Cornwell's novels, in a film
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She married one of her English professors, Charles L Cornwell, in 1980
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There have been many novels in the Kay Scarpetta series
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