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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 Smith, Ernest](images/writer/5592/5592_20130216164336.jpg)
Smith, Ernest
1868 - 1942
Ernest Bramah, born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author, numismatist and creator of two of the most original...
Further reading![Portrait image of Nora Roberts](images/writer/2752/619ae2b7136e9184d559699b2b23ec16f6477f2e52040.jpg)
Roberts, Nora
1950 -
The American author Nora Roberts was born as Eleanor Marie Robertson in Silver Spring, Maryland. She grew up as the only...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Connelly, Michael](images/writer/2633/wm_BR_2633_20150520173435_Large.jpg)
Connelly, Michael
1956 -
Michael Connelly is an American author of crime fiction born in Philadelphia. At the age of twelve, he moved with his...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Lindstein, Mariette](images/writer/7478/wm_BL_5ebc1324d470dae9e9ec7d43a4396c47761c816f0d37c.jpg)
Lindstein, Mariette
1958 -
Swedish author and lecturer, born as Mariette Westam in Halmstad, where she also grew up. As a child, she wrote ghost...
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