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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 Ken Follett](images/writer/546/603e803e04de2455d7464c954425d7bfed4756aa0a990.jpg)
Follett, Ken
1949 -
British author and journalist born in Cardiff, Wales. Kenneth "Ken" Follett’s parents were active members of the church of t...
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Grimes, Martha
1931 -
Martha Grimes is an American author of detective stories born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a lawyer, died when...
Further reading![Portrait image of Fulton Oursler](images/writer/7097/6193e61d11356a43b039a18d5a459e78cee471e75086c.jpg)
Oursler, Fulton
1893 - 1952
The American author, playwright and magazine editor Fulton Oursler was born in Baltimore in a poor middle-class family. He...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Hodgson, William Hope](images/writer/4846/4846_20121203181434.jpg)
Hodgson, William Hope
1877 - 1918
William Hope Hodgson was the son of an Anglican priest who grew up in England and Ireland alongside his eleven sisters and...
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