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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 image of Josephine Bell](images/writer/6478/6197954c58f0234a924ef166b9e084f5204e9d8b4165c.jpg)
Bell, Josephine
1897 - 1987
Josephine Bell is the pseudonym of the British writer and physician Doris Bell Ball, the author of radio plays, serials, a...
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 Holt, Anne](images/writer/785/wm_TR_785_20150907155449_Large.jpg)
Holt, Anne
1958 -
Anne Holt is a Norwegian crime writer born in Larvik. She read law at the University of Bergen, graduating in 1986. She...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Persson, Leif G.W.](images/writer/1360/wm_BR_1360_20160419104604_Large.jpg)
Persson, Leif G.W.
1945 -
Leif Gustav Willy Persson is a Swedish author and criminologist who previously worked for the Swedish Police and the...
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