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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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![Författarporträtt av James, Peter](images/writer/4773/wm_BR_4773_20130821153921_Large.jpg)
James, Peter
1948 -
The British author and film producer Peter James was born in Hove and grew up in Brighton, Sussex. His British father, Jack...
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Canning, Victor
1911 - 1986
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the...
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Winslow, Don
1953 -
Don Winslow is an American novelist and former private investigator. He was born in New York. His father was a US Navy...
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Auster, Paul
1947 - 2024
American author from a Jewish family, born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents, Queenie and Samuel Auster, came from Poland....
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