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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 Auster, Paul](images/writer/118/wm_BR_59b263c5af4b1d36b22351f2bd965e2c5f864ceaba024.jpg)
Auster, Paul
1947 - 2024
American author from a Jewish family, born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents, Queenie and Samuel Auster, came from Poland....
Further reading![Portrait of Graham Greene](images/writer/644/60990febd8a26a39ca6571e31b7ef78525b7a256ef0d0.jpg)
Greene, Graham
1904 - 1991
Henry Graham Greene was a British author and journalist born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, who became one of the foremost...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Lockridge, Richard](images/writer/7251/5c0f9fccb8c541bc981666289dd07129a30fb66533b8c.jpg)
Lockridge, Richard
1898 - 1982
An American journalist and author, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, where he also grew up. After finishing school, he studied...
Further reading![Portrait image of Agatha Christie](images/writer/321/6197b895b0cf8c9a54b02a9946620bb1352e2052bd7bd.jpg)
Christie, Agatha
1890 - 1976
English detective writer, born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in an affluent middle-class home in Torquay in Devon County....
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