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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 Lynn Shepherd](images/writer/7984/wm_BR_652eb64674b2e41dbae4b1b3889004ef94006a11e7eec.jpg)
Shepherd, Lynn
1964 -
The British author, Lynn Shepherd, attracted a great deal of attention in literary circles with her crime novels that...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Smith, Ernest](images/writer/5592/5592_20130216164336.jpg)
Smith, Ernest
1868 - 1942
Ernest Bramah, born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author, numismatist and creator of two of the most original...
Further reading![Portrait image of Patrícia Melo](images/writer/3472/617a75a668274a4384de4c0fb7d5be18e6b4a9262dfdc.jpg)
Melo, Patrícia
1962 -
The Brazilian dramaturge, journalist and author Patrícia Melo is an internationally renowned member of a generation of ...
Further reading![Portrait of Bill Pronzini](images/writer/4980/609950d9e9a0fe55a6a34b246b89a79694e7226c77a3c.jpg)
Pronzini, Bill
1943 -
The extremely prolific American author William John "Bill" Pronzini is the prize-winning author of over a hundred works of...
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