Patricia Cornwell net worth
Patricia Cornwell Net Worth: Patricia Cornwell is an American contemporary crime writer who has a net worth of $25 million. Patricia Cornwell was born on June 9, 1956 in Miami, Florida. She is best known for writing a series of popular novels in which the heroine, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, is a medical examiner. Her books have sold over 100 million copies.
After earning a BA in English from Davidson College in North Carolina, Cornwell began working as a reporter for the Charlotte Observer and soon began covering crime. The biography of her family friend Ruth Bell Graham, A Moment of Remembrance (renamed Ruth in a subsequent edition, Portrait: The Ruth Bell Graham Story) was published in 1983. In 1984, she worked as a Virginia Examiner in the Chief Medical Office, where she worked for six years, first as a technical writer and then as a computer analyst. She also volunteered with the Richmond Police Department. In addition to Scarpetta’s novels, Cornwell has written three pseudo-cop novels known as the Brazilian Soldier Andy/Judy Hammer Superintendent series, set in North Carolina, Virginia and the Atlantic Central Coast. In addition to the older women/younger men’s premise, the books include disturbing topics of fecalology and sepsis. Cornwell is also known for her continued self-funded search for evidence to support her theory that painter Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper. She wrote a portrait of Killer Jack the Ripper: The Case Closed, which was published in 2002 and caused a lot of controversy, especially among the British art world and Ripper scientists. Cornwall has had trouble with the law, starting with crashing a Mercedes-Benz under the influence of alcohol in 1993. She was convicted of drink-driving, sentenced to 28 days in a treatment center, and later charged with possible plagiarism from Leslie Sachs’ novels “The Ghost of Virginia” and Cornwell’s “The Last Precinct.” The parallels between — a legal battle that Cornwell ultimately won.
Cornwell suffered from anorexia nervosa and depression, which began when she was a teenager. She’s also open about her struggles with bipolar disorder.
