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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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James, P.D.
1920 - 2014
English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...
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Musso, Guillaume
1974 -
Frenchman who has written a number of thrillers which have been translated into many languages, and who is said to be the...
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Anderson, Lin
1951 -
Lin (Linda) Anderson was born in Greenock, western Scotland. Her parents were of Scottish and Irish descent. Her father was...
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Brooks, Kevin
1959 -
Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and has studied Philosophy and Psychology at Aston University in Birmingham and in London....
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