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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 Morrison, Arthur](images/writer/5989/5989_20120326084242.jpg)
Morrison, Arthur
1863 - 1945
Arthur Morrison was one of Britain's best-known authors around the turn of the last century on account of his realistic...
Further reading![Portrait image of Reginald Hill](images/writer/2758/2758_20150718122720_Large.jpg)
Hill, Reginald
1936 - 2012
The British author Reginald Charles Hill was born in West Hartlepool, Durham, but he moved with his family to Carlisle,...
Further reading![Portrait of Robert B. Parker](images/writer/1344/609aa9d2037ed665d803f109c45ccb064d20c2926c27d.jpg)
Parker, Robert B.
1932 - 2010
Robert Brown Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father was head of a telephone company. Parker...
Further reading![Portrait of Colin Forbes](images/writer/548/6098f7bf8593a699584dd731297cf55d21d2777243832.jpg)
Forbes, Colin
1923 - 2006
Colin Forbes is the pseudonym of the British author Raymond Harold Sawkins who was born in Hampstead, London. His first...
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