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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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Maugham, W. Somerset
1874 - 1965
William Somerset Maugham was a British author born in Paris. His father was a lawyer at the British Embassy there. When...
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George, Elizabeth
1949 -
Susan Elizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio. Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950, and Elizabeth...
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McCaffrey, Anne
1926 - 2011
The American author Anne McCaffrey has gained great international popularity with stories that are a wilful mixture of SF...
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Runcie, James
1959 -
James Robert Runcie is an author, documentary film maker, television producer and playwright. He was born in Cambridge and...
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