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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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![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 Anne McCaffrey](images/writer/7508/609a978493aef7e406c604b611d2bfa66f38614c534b9.jpg)
McCaffrey, Anne
1926 - 2011
The American author Anne McCaffrey has gained great international popularity with stories that are a wilful mixture of SF...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dennis Lehane](images/writer/3132/626839fff3b6f2fd32432ded9df22194f36554399ade1.jpg)
Lehane, Dennis
1966 -
The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the...
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...
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