-
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...
Sample of Authors
![Portrait of Adrian McKinty](images/writer/6763/609411b9f2c86a094248f755d498ddc8d311613cc1c86.jpg)
McKinty, Adrian
1968 -
Adrian McKinty was born in Belfast and grew up in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where he attended...
Further reading![Portrait image of David Lagercrantz](images/writer/3301/wm_BR_65295262a3472916e15b6b3eabde1900fd0727ad211f8.jpg)
Lagercrantz, David
1962 -
David Lagercrantz is a Swedish author and journalist born in Solna and brought up there and in Drottningholm, both near...
Further reading![Portrait of Martina Cole](images/writer/7450/60955dfcbc94af16e3007859f7c7f866b04a8c9ae87fe.jpg)
Cole, Martina
1959 -
Martina Cole is one best-selling British authors of the 21st century; according to the mass media, only Harry Potter’s c...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Bussi, Michel](images/writer/7401/5f88cd619a693841a688d5135917cb66d891e1d65a77b.jpg)
Bussi, Michel
1965 -
Michel Bussi, born in northern France, is a well-known scientist, since the 1990s a professor of Geo-politics – a s...
Further reading