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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 Maria Lang](images/writer/984/6220dd6a8c4934dc9a30bf73b4c044b1a275472eb3c84.jpg)
Lang, Maria
1914 - 1991
Maria Lang is the pen name of the teacher and head mistress Dagmar (Maria) Lange, one of Sweden’s most popular, but also m...
Further reading![Portrait of William Boyd](images/writer/224/604f9e9a4582b9f603d8122a0f4bc0e76460fbc6e3338.jpg)
Boyd, William
1952 -
The British author William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana. His father, a doctor, and his mother, a teacher, moved to The...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Morrison, Arthur](images/writer/5989/5989_20120326084242.jpg)
Morrison, Arthur
1863 - 1945
Arthur Morrison was one of Britain's best-known authors around the turn of the last century on account of his realistic...
Further reading![Portrait image of Rex Stout](images/writer/1640/619ae56c6655bb901e6f78e0fb448eec8bd806420c6f9.jpg)
Stout, Rex
1886 - 1975
The American author Rex Todhunter Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana, as the sixth of nine children to John and Lucetta...
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