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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 Victor Canning](images/writer/3403/618cf3ef297d45850529f1cc6664baba6171927271329.jpg)
Canning, Victor
1911 - 1986
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the...
Further reading![Portrait of Jonathan Kellerman](images/writer/915/609a9d409197ce7e737d4ed763f973967d7696d9a4912.jpg)
Kellerman, Jonathan
1949 -
Jonathan Kellerman is an American author of thrillers. He was born in New York where he attended the Yeshiva of Central...
Further reading![Portrait of Nic Pizzolatto](images/writer/6825/6099272b2b28d3186d0216ce0f728c3b8f55829071b8c.jpg)
Pizzolatto, Nic
1975 -
The American author Nicholas Austin "Nic" Pizzolatto is the author of the bestselling novel Galveston (2010) and the...
Further reading![Portrait of John D. MacDonald](images/writer/2981/609937feaf107a24e2537f9e6b9542cf96fc882a4f535.jpg)
MacDonald, John D.
1916 - 1986
The American author John Dann MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania. His father (who was of Scottish ancestry) pursued...
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