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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 Leblanc, Maurice](images/writer/1000/1000_20130109205703.jpg)
Leblanc, Maurice
1864 - 1941
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a French author born in Rouen, Normandy. His father was a shipowner. Leblanc did well at ...
Further reading![Portrait of Claudia Piñeiro](images/writer/6079/60941e75c4544cd2a5a3509fb1985e5aaf1aebefd10bc.jpg)
Piñeiro, Claudia
1960 -
Argentinian author born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires. Claudia Piñeiro started reading social sciences, but she switched to ...
Further reading![Portrait of Ferdinand von Schirach](images/writer/5846/609945687bdc65de8fbd55127c3cb9c6cedbdcc5991fc.jpg)
Schirach, Ferdinand von
1964 -
Ferdinand von Schirach is a German lawyer and author born in Munich to a wealthy Protestant family. He grew up in Munich...
Further reading![Portrait of Gore Vidal](images/writer/1794/6037ecf51b12f82963c3a7f278acdf0298913a6f41dab.jpg)
Vidal, Gore
1925 - 2012
The American novelist and essayist Gore Vidal was born at West Point, New York. He was originally christened Eugene Vidal,...
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