# Patricia Cornwell on Her Dark Childhood and Best-Selling Novels

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Podcast: [The Book Review](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-review-415412)
Published: 2026-05-08T09:00:00+00:00
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The crime novelist discusses her new memoir “True Crime.” Also, Daniel Kraus, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction, talks about his novel “Angel Down.”

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