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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 Helen MacInnes](images/writer/1102/619adace3591452537f9762a7511b20cc4d6dc6123412.jpg)
MacInnes, Helen
1907 - 1985
Helen Clark MacInnes was a Scottish-American author born in Glasgow. She moved with her family to Helensburgh in 1912 where...
Further reading![Portrait image of Mary Lewis](images/writer/5567/6193d9355364dbc267578b4eaa9a77a8c627dd23302d1.jpg)
Lewis, Mary
1907 - 1988
Writing as Christianna Brand, Mary Lewis, born Mary Christianna Milne, was one of Britain’s foremost crime writers and c...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Hodgson, William Hope](images/writer/4846/4846_20121203181434.jpg)
Hodgson, William Hope
1877 - 1918
William Hope Hodgson was the son of an Anglican priest who grew up in England and Ireland alongside his eleven sisters and...
Further reading![Portrait of Dean R. Koontz](images/writer/956/60993cc2bd90d164892bafa5e7737a10d8201414d6d7e.jpg)
Koontz, Dean R.
1945 -
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author of suspense literature. He was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a...
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