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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 of T. Jefferson Parker](images/writer/3048/60903fffaada074f45ed4aeeb8f3e7f90313623e4142b.jpg)
Parker, T. Jefferson
1953 -
T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Bauer, Belinda](images/writer/5666/wm_BR_5666_20150907115325_Large.jpg)
Bauer, Belinda
1962 -
As a child, the British author Belinda Bauer spent ten years in South Africa during apartheid. Her father was a dentist...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dennis Wheatley](images/writer/1857/619ae9c2380c4448c1a90f3f70f1506bd1ec6129ae770.jpg)
Wheatley, Dennis
1897 - 1977
The British author and wine merchant Dennis Yeats Wheatley was one of the foremost 20th century authors of thrillers and...
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