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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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Bradley, Alan
1938 -
Alan Bradley was born in Toronto, Canada. He grew up with his mother and two sisters in the town of Cobourg, about one...
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Chandler, Raymond
1888 - 1959
American detective writer, born in Chicago. He spent his early childhood in Wyoming and Nebraska. His parents divorced when...
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Parker, Robert B.
1932 - 2010
Robert Brown Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father was head of a telephone company. Parker...
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Musso, Guillaume
1974 -
Frenchman who has written a number of thrillers which have been translated into many languages, and who is said to be the...
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