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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 Boris Akunin](images/writer/3058/6634c405bc6f65ba4c86f749174818456e70044d53ca7.jpg)
Akunin, Boris
1956 -
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...
Further reading![Portrait of Gisa Klönne](images/writer/5198/609566b25fc2076ee4dff390e2720f9dc2e88dc99df24.jpg)
Klönne, Gisa
1964 -
The German author Gisa Klönne was born in Stuttgart and grew up in Darmstadt. She wanted to become an author from an early ...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dorothy Salisbury Davis](images/writer/2966/6197c7b5a47c9e8a275f39be3c1c5c6611761e47f5394.jpg)
Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
1916 - 2014
The American crime writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and adopted by an older childless couple,...
Further reading![Portrait of Jonathan Kellerman](images/writer/915/609a9d409197ce7e737d4ed763f973967d7696d9a4912.jpg)
Kellerman, Jonathan
1949 -
Jonathan Kellerman is an American author of thrillers. He was born in New York where he attended the Yeshiva of Central...
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