Patricia Cornwell is the Gold Dagger and Edgar Award winning author whose international bestsellers include Black Notice, Point of Origin, Unnatural Exposure, Cause of Death, From Potter's Field, The Body Farm, Cruel And Unusual, All That Remains, Body Of Evidence, Postmortem and the non-Scarpetta novels Hornet's Nest and Southern Cross. Cornwell is the author also of the biography of Ruth, A Portrait, The Story Of Ruth Bell Graham; a childeren's book, Life's Little Fable; and a cookbook, Scarpetta's Winter Table. She divides her time between Richmond, Virginia, and New York.