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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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![Författarporträtt av Harrison, Harry](images/writer/7527/614b2df6855a06f42a88433329380d806c8409f8b9852.jpg)
Harrison, Harry
1925 - 2012
The Irish-American author and illustrator Harry (Henry Maxwell) Harrison wrote virtually only science fiction and fantasy....
Further reading![Portrait of Isaac Asimov](images/writer/102/5f5f3eedc13abcca8edadf8f7b9073cfcbf37248b24a0.jpg)
Asimov, Isaac
1920 - 1992
Isaac Asimov was born as Isaak Yudovich Ozimov in a small town near Smolensk in the former Soviet Union. When he was three...
Further reading![Portrait image of Candice Fox](images/writer/6801/640a363306b9457e1613398f172e287328cc5d4c2dd82.jpg)
Fox, Candice
1985 -
Australian crime-fiction writer and teacher, born and raised in Bankstown, which is close to Sydney where she now lives....
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Wright, Willard Huntington](images/writer/5546/5546_20130305164442.jpg)
Wright, Willard Huntington
1888 - 1939
Willard Huntington Wright was an American critic and editor. He was born in Virginia, attended Harvard and later studied...
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