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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 Lindell, Unni](images/writer/2832/wm_BR_2832_20151124161611_Large.jpg)
Lindell, Unni
1957 -
Unni Maria Lindell is one of Norway’s most productive and best selling authors. Although she is best known for her crime n...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Henry, O.](images/writer/1964/1964_20120320063737.jpg)
Henry, O.
1862 - 1910
O. Henry was born as William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina. He later changed the spelling of his middle name...
Further reading![Portrait of Nelson DeMille](images/writer/385/6074844e18865cb621b8334e4ac2273540cbbcfcbb7b0.jpg)
DeMille, Nelson
1943 -
Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. He was born in Queens, New York, to a...
Further reading![Portrait of Philip Kerr](images/writer/6378/602fb3ac5d12f3b9ddeed300c642c9206d1ee99aae625.jpg)
Kerr, Philip
1956 - 2018
Philip Kerr was a Scottish author born in Edinburgh. His family were Baptists. Kerr read law and philosophy at the...
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