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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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![Portrait image of Julian Symons](images/writer/1681/619ae713cfd017e9ef0b30601d6d2aeaa1f7b18ee8a5c.jpg)
Symons, Julian
1912 - 1994
Julian Gustave Symons was a British author and critic born in London, where he spent part of his life. His mother was...
Further reading![Portrait image of Lynn Shepherd](images/writer/7984/wm_BR_652eb64674b2e41dbae4b1b3889004ef94006a11e7eec.jpg)
Shepherd, Lynn
1964 -
The British author, Lynn Shepherd, attracted a great deal of attention in literary circles with her crime novels that...
Further reading![Portrait image of Lindsey Davis](images/writer/383/6633b85f84ba43ebb0b2f62f445de30390c5d6d418e0d.jpg)
Davis, Lindsey
1949 -
Lindsey Davis is a British crime writer born in Birmingham where she attended the King Edward VI High School for Girls...
Further reading![Portrait image of Friedrich Glauser](images/writer/4837/618d2c4341bb1171dfb1646124fae26fd307132816e63.jpg)
Glauser, Friedrich
1896 - 1938
The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland....
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