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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 of Ed McBain](images/writer/1154/5f6c9aa6957057c8e744af1d2ddd3dafddb5f908ecd3c.jpg)
McBain, Ed
1926 - 2005
Ed McBain is the best-known pen name for Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Alberto Lombino, a versatile and prolific American...
Further reading![Portrait of Jason Goodwin](images/writer/4647/6075a88030eb2efe6f56f857bcc95b12e5032bc0c82d4.jpeg)
Goodwin, Jason
1964 -
Jason Goodwin is a British author and journalist. His mother, the bohemian author Jocasta Innes, and his father, the author...
Further reading![Portrait image of Åsa Nilsonne](images/writer/1251/wm_BR_62e3de467769fb119ce0b1509e71cd2a5268b397b1161.jpg)
Nilsonne, Åsa
1949 -
Åsa Nilsonne is a Swedish psychiatrist, translator and crime writer. She was born in Stockholm, but as the daughter of a ...
Further reading![Portrait of Peter Spiegelman](images/writer/4429/608a9eb4c08b309856a8ab8ea0694490c627c5e2c883c.jpg)
Spiegelman, Peter
1958 -
The American crime writer Peter Spiegelman was born in New York. He grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and has lived there...
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