Patricia Cornwell
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744 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Patricia Cornwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Book Review · Patricia Cornwell on Her Dark Childhood and Best-Selling Novels · 8 May 2026
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They gave me permission to graduate with honors if I would do a project
And, you know, like writing a master's thesis or something.
And I said, well, what about the book I'm writing?
And they agreed.
And so I kept doing it for that reason.
And then when it was done and I got honors in English, I put it in a box.
All of that, multiple drafts, because there was more than one that I had saved.
And, you know, I saved things.
And then when I started becoming well-known as a writer, all this stuff, we started archivally preserving these things.
And so, literally, the manuscript that I looked at had been sitting in an archival box, or I had not looked at it since I finished writing it in college.
And it was very strange to look at that, pull it out of that box, and then not think, oh, God, this is awful.
It's awful.
It really is bad.
I'm not kidding.
I was trying to turn my experiences.
I think that must have been it.
I thought that I was trying to write a good story, but that really wasn't it.
I think it was my therapy.
I think that was my coping skill.
And the funny thing is, it's still my coping skill because with all of the trauma and violence that I have seen, you know, turning it into stories is a way of venting it for me.
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