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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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Herron, Mick
1963 -
The British crime writer Mick Herron was born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He read literature at Balliol College,...
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Collins, Max Allan
1948 -
A very productive American multitasker, known primarily as a crime author, born in Muscatine in Iowa. With the exception of...
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George, Elizabeth
1949 -
Susan Elizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio. Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950, and Elizabeth...
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Harvey, John
1938 -
The British author, editor and teacher John Barton Harvey grew up in London where he attended St. Aloysius College. He...
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