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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 Robert B. Parker

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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Portrait of Tami Hoag

Hoag, Tami
1959 -

Tami Hoag is an American author. She was born in Cresco, Iowa, and grew up in the small town of Harmony in southeast...

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Portrait of Anne McCaffrey

McCaffrey, Anne
1926 - 2011

The American author Anne McCaffrey has gained great international popularity with stories that are a wilful mixture of SF...

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Författarporträtt av Auster, Paul

Auster, Paul
1947 - 2024

American author from a Jewish family, born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents, Queenie and Samuel Auster, came from Poland....

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