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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 McDermid, Val](images/writer/1160/wm_BR_1160_20130821161551_Large.jpg)
McDermid, Val
1955 -
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a...
Further reading![Portrait of John Grisham](images/writer/651/605075b673a3be6a0c043bb52a9d890dd25efe58087bb.jpg)
Grisham, John
1955 -
American author, lawyer and politician born in Jonesboro, Arkansas. His father was a construction worker who travelled...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Smirnoff, Karin](images/writer/7223/wm_BR_628766ab233da1af717e91e20c41fca9b45303cf80051.jpg)
Smirnoff, Karin
1964 -
Karin Smirnoff has the same name as August Strindberg’s daughter, dramatist and author Karin Smirnoff (1880-1973) who also w...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Harrison, Harry](images/writer/7527/614b2df6855a06f42a88433329380d806c8409f8b9852.jpg)
Harrison, Harry
1925 - 2012
The Irish-American author and illustrator Harry (Henry Maxwell) Harrison wrote virtually only science fiction and fantasy....
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