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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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Hawkins, Paula
1972 -
Paula Hawkins grew up in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Her father was an economics professor and journalist....
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Fox, Candice
1985 -
Australian crime-fiction writer and teacher, born and raised in Bankstown, which is close to Sydney where she now lives....
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Katzenbach, John
1950 -
American author and journalist, son of the famous and politically very active lawyer Nicholas Katzenbach, later the US...
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Manotti, Dominique
1942 -
Behind the name Dominique Manotti hides the professor of Economic History Marie-Noëlle Thibault. It was when she, in her ...
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