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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 Hillary Waugh](images/writer/2988/609934cfe24bca0fb6e0eef5f10f764796d993b0a415c.jpg)
Waugh, Hillary
1920 - 2008
The American mystery novelist Hillary Baldwin Waugh was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Hillhouse...
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Winslow, Don
1953 -
Don Winslow is an American novelist and former private investigator. He was born in New York. His father was a US Navy...
Further reading![Portrait of Adrian McKinty](images/writer/6763/609411b9f2c86a094248f755d498ddc8d311613cc1c86.jpg)
McKinty, Adrian
1968 -
Adrian McKinty was born in Belfast and grew up in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where he attended...
Further reading![Portrait of Aaron Elkins](images/writer/467/607492e9ab0209651b2d53aec5c77199b66edffc45a04.jpg)
Elkins, Aaron
1935 -
Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College,...
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