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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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![Portrait image of Lindsey Davis](images/writer/383/6633b85f84ba43ebb0b2f62f445de30390c5d6d418e0d.jpg)
Davis, Lindsey
1949 -
Lindsey Davis is a British crime writer born in Birmingham where she attended the King Edward VI High School for Girls...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Allen, Grant](images/writer/5558/5558_20120428085855.jpg)
Allen, Grant
1848 - 1899
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was a British philosopher, natural scientist and journalist. His support for evolutionary...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Liffner, Eva-Marie](images/writer/2913/2913_20150202110012_Large.jpg)
Liffner, Eva-Marie
1957 -
Eva-Marie Liffner is a Swedish author and journalist born in Gothenburg and raised in Frölunda in the 1950s, where she ...
Further reading![Portrait of Michael Dibdin](images/writer/394/60993f5530494e2925b3b98da22d4d4d3fe708a6247a3.jpg)
Dibdin, Michael
1947 - 2007
Michael Dibdin was a British crime writer born in Wolverhampton. His father was a teacher. The family moved to Northern...
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