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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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Archer, Jeffrey
1940 -
Jeffrey Howard Archer is a British author, former politician and peer of the realm surrounded by scandal. His thrillers and...
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Flynn, Gillian
1971 -
Already as a child, the American author and journalist Gillian Flynn was fascinated by horror and crime. She read books...
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Turow, Scott
1949 -
Scott Frederick Turow is an American author born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father was working as a physicist. Both...
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Oates, Joyce Carol
1938 -
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the...
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