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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 Maureen O'Brien](images/writer/5855/6094187d4f53252c48f3a81d682c06d6f433aa379e8ba.jpg)
O'Brien, Maureen
1943 -
Maureen O’Brien is an English actress and author from Merseyside, United Kingdom. She was born in Liverpool, where she l...
Further reading![Portrait image of Ronald A. Knox](images/writer/5588/6197e9bb8e9122f318447b3a0220556d46fd8308744a2.jpg)
Knox, Ronald A.
1888 - 1957
Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was a well-known and much loved English Catholic priest, theologian and author of crime...
Further reading![Portrait of Jean-Christophe Grangé](images/writer/4194/6075aaf36b72ecf65f541a3359fa076ada3305fcb4a0f.jpg)
Grangé, Jean-Christophe
1961 -
Jean-Christophe Grangé is an award-winning French author and journalist born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. Little is ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Clark, Mary Higgins](images/writer/325/5f919a9c74b19e387987fb8fb53281105d63c684000e5.jpg)
Clark, Mary Higgins
1927 - 2020
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, who publishes her work as Mary Higgins Clark, was born in New York on...
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