-
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...
Sample of Authors
![Portrait of Alistair MacLean](images/writer/1103/609939c37c4e6c703296c2c2c1b23cfd15fd0e77bd186.jpg)
MacLean, Alistair
1922 - 1987
The Scottish author Alistair Stuart MacLean was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, in a Gaelic-speaking family as Alasdair...
Further reading![Portrait of Kate Atkinson](images/writer/109/603e77d7183f4e0f66aff4fea55744f5da755a8b0a724.jpg)
Atkinson, Kate
1951 -
The British author Kate Atkinson was born in York, her father was a shopkeeper. She read English literature at Dundee...
Further reading![Portrait image of Ellery Queen](images/writer/1413/619ae052a8b563721aadb32c381cad26afb64b7e15b1d.jpg)
Queen, Ellery
Pseudonym
Ellery Queen is a pen name shared by Frederic Dannay, born Daniel Nathan, and Manfred B. (Bennington) Lee, born Manford...
Further reading![Portrait image of K. Arne Blom](images/writer/201/6220ce10456e7955c33bda483a5b7e88b107d7bfdfc79.jpg)
Blom, K. Arne
1946 - 2021
The Swedish author K. (Karl) Arne Blom was born in Nässjö where he passed his baccalaureate in 1967. Later the same year, h...
Further reading