CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Patricia Cornwell, the best-selling crime-fiction writer, has given $1 million to the Harvard Art Museum’s Straus Center for Conversation and Technical Studies, the New York Times reports. The money, together with a matching grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will endow a position called the Patricia Cornwell Conservation Scientist. In a statement, the museum said the new position would allow it to “employ sophisticated forensic applications to studying works of art.”