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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 Stephen King](images/writer/937/609aa7325b91180e35032646d2020645fa908126c0a2e.jpg)
King, Stephen
1947 -
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Mullen, Thomas](images/writer/7240/wm_BR_5dcd72788161bc97a41c3fbc2351c6b64a1a331eaee53.jpg)
Mullen, Thomas
1974 -
The American author Thomas Mullen was born on Rhode Island. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode...
Further reading![Portrait image of Liza Cody](images/writer/331/6197baecda7142744a172004308e535be57faa3671284.jpg)
Cody, Liza
1944 -
Pseudonym for Liza Nassim, English crime fiction writer, born in London where she grew up. She had problems in school – it l...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Frimansson, Inger](images/writer/575/wm_BR_5bbf04da0837a3a785fe249bdd70445cf05c5fcc3ece2.jpg)
Frimansson, Inger
1944 -
Inger Frimansson is a Swedish author born in Stockholm as Inger Wilén. Her father was an engineer. Frimansson passed her ...
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