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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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Thompson, Jim
1906 - 1977
James Myers "Jim" Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. His father was of Scottish origin while his mother had Cherokee...
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King, Stephen
1947 -
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...
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Shepherd, Lynn
1964 -
The British author, Lynn Shepherd, attracted a great deal of attention in literary circles with her crime novels that...
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Bernuth, Christa
1961 -
The German journalist and crime author Christa von Bernuth was born in Munich where she still lives. After attending...
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