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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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Fleming, Ian
1908 - 1964
Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author and journalist born in London. He created James Bond, code name 007 – one of t...
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Kallentoft, Mons
1968 -
Mons Kallentoft is a Swedish writer and journalist born in Ljungsbro near Linköping. He began to write at the age of ...
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Marquand, John P.
1893 - 1960
The American author John Phillips Marquand was born in Wilmington, Delaware. His parents were wealthy, but they lost their...
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Roberts, Nora
1950 -
The American author Nora Roberts was born as Eleanor Marie Robertson in Silver Spring, Maryland. She grew up as the only...
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