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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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Haas, Wolf
1960 -
Wolf Haas is an Austrian linguist and advertising copywriter who has emerged over the past years as one of the most...
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Child, Lee
1954 -
Lee Child is the pen name of the British author and television producer Jim Grant. He was born in Coventry as one of four...
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Burke, James Lee
1936 -
James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf...
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Yorke, Margaret
1924 - 2012
Margaret Yorke is the pseudonym of the popular English author of crime fiction Margaret Nicholson. She has been described...
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