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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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Wahlöö, Per
1926 - 1975
Per Fredrik Wahlöö was a Swedish author born in Kungsbacka. His father was a newspaper editor in Lund. Per Wahlöö passed his...
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Oursler, Fulton
1893 - 1952
The American author, playwright and magazine editor Fulton Oursler was born in Baltimore in a poor middle-class family. He...
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Grimes, Martha
1931 -
Martha Grimes is an American author of detective stories born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a lawyer, died when...
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Hill, Reginald
1936 - 2012
The British author Reginald Charles Hill was born in West Hartlepool, Durham, but he moved with his family to Carlisle,...
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