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It is 131 years today since Dorothy L. Sayers was born.
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and his wife Helen Leigh Sayers. When Dorothy L. (Leigh) Sayers was four years old, the family moved to Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire where the father was appointed pastor. The parents had cultural and linguistic interests, and regularly travelled with their daughter to...
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![Författarporträtt av Keeler, Harry Stephen](images/writer/6915/6915_20161225084528_Large.jpg)
Keeler, Harry Stephen
1890 - 1967
The American author Harry Stephen Keeler was one of a kind. He wrote some seventy novels that are a blend of crime fiction,...
Further reading![Portrait of Andrew Taylor](images/writer/3952/609425a9653712d263e8f95ec91c19f89c16025c7fedc.jpg)
Taylor, Andrew
1951 -
The British author Andrew John Robert Taylor was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and grew up in East Anglia. He attended...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Mosley, Walter](images/writer/1208/wm_BR_1208_20150629233448_Large.jpg)
Mosley, Walter
1952 -
American author, born in the tough and run-down South Central district in Los Angeles. His mother had a Russian-Jewish...
Further reading![Portrait image of Cecil Day Lewis](images/writer/5499/6197c8d0d31f93cdef0c2d1ff764d6ceb1b443c0418f8.jpg)
Day Lewis, Cecil
1904 - 1972
Irish poet, publisher and professor, and a British citizen from 1948. Cecil Day Lewis is one of the most prominent names in...
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