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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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![Författarporträtt av Mason, A.E.W.](images/writer/4723/4723_20130121230220.jpg)
Mason, A.E.W.
1865 - 1948
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason was a British author born in London. He attended Dulwich College and Trinity College, Oxford,...
Further reading![Portrait image of Eric Ambler](images/writer/50/6197862993aee1be23c4d40bafbfd9b2da2f1535c0e68.jpg)
Ambler, Eric
1909 - 1998
Eric Clifford Ambler was a British author and playwright born in London. His parents were music hall artists, and at the...
Further reading![Portrait of Daniel Woodrell](images/writer/3540/609a881674a8737703c3c9e825b886720445a80055bcd.jpg)
Woodrell, Daniel
1953 -
Daniell Woodrell is an American author born in Springfield, a town situated in the Missouri Ozarks, a plateau and mountain...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dorothy Uhnak](images/writer/1764/619ae8efcd50ef1cf961a5a842ef50a6688423a6d7dc6.jpg)
Uhnak, Dorothy
1930 - 2006
Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the...
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