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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 Lockridge, Frances](images/writer/7250/5c0f9904d3e555b27d4e778400f98346be1eee829a435.jpg)
Lockridge, Frances
1896 - 1963
The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also...
Further reading![Portrait of Jason Goodwin](images/writer/4647/6075a88030eb2efe6f56f857bcc95b12e5032bc0c82d4.jpeg)
Goodwin, Jason
1964 -
Jason Goodwin is a British author and journalist. His mother, the bohemian author Jocasta Innes, and his father, the author...
Further reading![Portrait image of Frank Heller](images/writer/736/61926d2766f4b2bea843bf1d7f60586d50cc80f7d0f6d.jpg)
Heller, Frank
1886 - 1947
Frank Heller is a pseudonym used by the Swedish author Gunnar Serner who was among the most popular authors of light...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Cross, Amanda](images/writer/6854/614b5a02b19e79fe93297a59832d39c7ffb8ed74232e9.jpg)
Cross, Amanda
1926 - 2003
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was a successful American academic, feminist and author of a series of mystery novels published under...
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