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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 of James Ellroy](images/writer/469/609a89f46ca91fb264266c62f376a5da6df7edf4c55c4.jpg)
Ellroy, James
1948 -
Having revolutionized crime fiction in terms of language and style, James Ellroy is now one of America’s foremost c...
Further reading![Portrait of Steven Saylor](images/writer/4439/60942000457073d5d175fa6bc92fb076edc924fe475f0.jpg)
Saylor, Steven
1956 -
The American author Steven Saylor has pursued two separate literary careers. In the 1980s and early ‘90s he was one of the m...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Davidsen, Leif](images/writer/379/wm_BR_379_20160114151336_Large.jpg)
Davidsen, Leif
1950 -
Leif Davidsen in a Danish author and journalist born in Otterup on northern Funen. He grew up there and in the neighbouring...
Further reading![Portrait image of Edmund Crispin](images/writer/360/6197c23140d1a642fcc468b291f2b5b25234cc58615bf.jpg)
Crispin, Edmund
1921 - 1978
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of...
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