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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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Holt, Anne
1958 -
Anne Holt is a Norwegian crime writer born in Larvik. She read law at the University of Bergen, graduating in 1986. She...
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Bell, Josephine
1897 - 1987
Josephine Bell is the pseudonym of the British writer and physician Doris Bell Ball, the author of radio plays, serials, a...
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Harrison, Harry
1925 - 2012
The Irish-American author and illustrator Harry (Henry Maxwell) Harrison wrote virtually only science fiction and fantasy....
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Lindell, Unni
1957 -
Unni Maria Lindell is one of Norway’s most productive and best selling authors. Although she is best known for her crime n...
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