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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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Guillou, Jan
1944 -
Swedish author and journalist, who was born in Södertälje and grew up in Saltsjöbaden. Jan Guillou, who has French ancestry (...
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Child, Lee
1954 -
Lee Child is the pen name of the British author and television producer Jim Grant. He was born in Coventry as one of four...
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Spain, Jo
1979 -
The Irish author Joanne ‘Jo’ Spain was born into a working-class family in the little notorious residential district of Bel...
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Norman, Andreas
1972 -
Author Andreas Norman’s mother is the social anthropologist Karin Norman, and his father the psychoanalyst Johan Norman. At f...
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