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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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Barclay, Linwood
1955 -
Canadian-American author, born in Darien, Connecticut in the USA. Just before his fourth birthday, the family moved to...
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Woods, Stuart
1938 - 2022
Stuart Woods was an American author of crime fiction and former racing sailor whose first novel is now considered a crime...
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McCall Smith, Alexander
1948 -
The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British col...
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Parsons, Julie
1951 -
Writer of detective stories Julie Parsons was born and grew up in New Zealand, to which her Irish parents had emigrated in...
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