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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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Persson Giolito, Malin
1969 -
When Malin Persson Giolito was still called only Persson, she grew up in Djursholm, Stockholm. Her mother, who was the...
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Duncan, Lois
1934 - 2016
Lois Duncan Steinmetz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the daughter of Joseph Steinmetz and his wife Lois Duncan,...
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Ekman, Kerstin
1933 -
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman (born Hjort) is one of Sweden's foremost living novelists. She was born in Finspång and grew up in ...
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Clancy, Tom
1947 - 2013
The American novelist Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. was born in Baltimore. His father worked for the United States Postal...
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