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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 Anders Bodelsen](images/writer/208/6220cfd6c253ce47aa7451e25102f5cfd07763a0f9866.jpg)
Bodelsen, Anders
1937 - 2021
Anders Bodelsen was a Danish author, journalist and critic born in the Copenhagen district of Frederiksberg. He then lived...
Further reading![Portrait of Robert B. Parker](images/writer/1344/609aa9d2037ed665d803f109c45ccb064d20c2926c27d.jpg)
Parker, Robert B.
1932 - 2010
Robert Brown Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father was head of a telephone company. Parker...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Börjlind, Rolf](images/writer/6353/wm_BR_6353_20141006121233_Large.jpg)
Börjlind, Rolf
1943 -
Rolf Börjlind was born in Västra Skrävlinge in Malmö. He started studying at the College of Journalism in Stockholm in 196...
Further reading![Portrait of Bill Pronzini](images/writer/4980/609950d9e9a0fe55a6a34b246b89a79694e7226c77a3c.jpg)
Pronzini, Bill
1943 -
The extremely prolific American author William John "Bill" Pronzini is the prize-winning author of over a hundred works of...
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