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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 Camilleri, Andrea](images/writer/2816/5f88d2a5de6765d4a5061aeab5103a1bdcdf5aeeb2a60.jpg)
Camilleri, Andrea
1925 - 2019
Italian author and theatre/film producer, born in the industrial town Porto Empedocle in Agrigento province on the south...
Further reading![Portrait of James Lee Burke](images/writer/266/609a8e48283ef21e976f169a01cbb69587498f71ae99a.jpg)
Burke, James Lee
1936 -
James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Cook, Robin (1940-)](images/writer/6711/5f91b0c9e9c7732499d38a61932d62824c07a6a1693f8.jpg)
Cook, Robin (1940-)
1940 -
American doctor, businessman and author, who has written a long row of thriller-like medical crime novels, many of which...
Further reading![Portrait image of Freeman Wills Crofts](images/writer/5502/6197d28b84ca9487d9373f31216990d470233a14527f8.jpg)
Crofts, Freeman Wills
1879 - 1957
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young....
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