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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 of Andrew H. Vachss](images/writer/1773/60994647e9a0738477ec0a689ae53f02d32d7a9239959.jpg)
Vachss, Andrew H.
1942 - 2021
Andrew Henry Vachss was an American author of crime fiction. He was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up on Long...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Gercke, Doris](images/writer/611/wm_BR_611_20160323153141_Large.jpg)
Gercke, Doris
1937 -
Doris Gercke is a German author of crime fiction born in Greifswald in the former East Germany. She grew up in a working...
Further reading![Portrait image of Ellery Queen](images/writer/1413/619ae052a8b563721aadb32c381cad26afb64b7e15b1d.jpg)
Queen, Ellery
Pseudonym
Ellery Queen is a pen name shared by Frederic Dannay, born Daniel Nathan, and Manfred B. (Bennington) Lee, born Manford...
Further reading![Portrait of Jo Spain](images/writer/7393/609423c28f096829436cf9cb3a4dc89f1e14aeea953c2.jpg)
Spain, Jo
1979 -
The Irish author Joanne ‘Jo’ Spain was born into a working-class family in the little notorious residential district of Bel...
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