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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 Yorke, Margaret](images/writer/1902/wm_BR_1902_20140127180407_Large.jpg)
Yorke, Margaret
1924 - 2012
Margaret Yorke is the pseudonym of the popular English author of crime fiction Margaret Nicholson. She has been described...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Hellström, Börge](images/writer/4440/wm_BR_4440_20161019005022_Large.jpg)
Hellström, Börge
1957 - 2017
Börge Hellström was a former criminal turned author. After a tough childhood he became an alcoholic and a drug addict, and e...
Further reading![Portrait of Nelson DeMille](images/writer/385/6074844e18865cb621b8334e4ac2273540cbbcfcbb7b0.jpg)
DeMille, Nelson
1943 -
Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. He was born in Queens, New York, to a...
Further reading![Portrait of Kathy Reichs](images/writer/3923/609a493b4a985b69160ed162d6ca8f1ee0a2b3e5e2dc3.jpg)
Reichs, Kathy
1948 -
Kathleen Joan Reichs, better known as Kathy Reichs, is a prominent anthropologist and professor at the Department of...
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