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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 Izner, Claude](images/writer/5553/wm_BR_5553_20150116140807_Large.jpg)
Izner, Claude
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Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, are the two sisters behind the pseudonym Claude Izner. Their father was a bookseller, a ...
Further reading![Portrait of Robert Crais](images/writer/6416/6197c01c714a5fbbce3709861dffb6caacca6e8c56c1f.jpg)
Crais, Robert
1953 -
Robert Crais is an American author born in Independence, Louisiana, and brought up on the banks of the Mississippi River in...
Further reading![Portrait image of August Derleth](images/writer/7110/618cf90868eb4fd16cb7c1e04947fe73fa84bbd178948.jpg)
Derleth, August
1909 - 1971
American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. W...
Further reading![Portrait image of K. Arne Blom](images/writer/201/6220ce10456e7955c33bda483a5b7e88b107d7bfdfc79.jpg)
Blom, K. Arne
1946 - 2021
The Swedish author K. (Karl) Arne Blom was born in Nässjö where he passed his baccalaureate in 1967. Later the same year, h...
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