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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 Algernon Blackwood](images/writer/5263/6197aff112288c86333afea3dfc6180107397f4702464.jpg)
Blackwood, Algernon
1869 - 1951
The British author Algernon Henry Blackwood grew up in a strictly religious home in Kent. He soon abandoned his Christian...
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...
Further reading![Portrait image of Mick Herron](images/writer/6268/6197db65d7b5fcddbc73e16bb0bbccaaf68628c323047.jpg)
Herron, Mick
1963 -
The British crime writer Mick Herron was born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He read literature at Balliol College,...
Further reading![Portrait image of Vera Caspary](images/writer/5586/618164cc1efa8d7b414549a3d1b7bc3731c6255e959e5.jpg)
Caspary, Vera
1899 - 1987
The American author Vera Caspary spent a great deal of time and effort writing her popular screen and stage plays, but she...
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