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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 Bernuth, Christa](images/writer/4444/wm_BR_4444_20140320101226_Large.jpg)
Bernuth, Christa
1961 -
The German journalist and crime author Christa von Bernuth was born in Munich where she still lives. After attending...
Further reading![Portrait image of Edward D. Hoch](images/writer/2553/6197def0a47da01df70f4d6eb0b637c7557b480254810.jpg)
Hoch, Edward D.
1930 - 2008
The American crime writer Edward D. (Dentinger) Hoch was unique in the sense that he appears to be the only American crime...
Further reading![Portrait of Janet Evanovich](images/writer/3096/60749583dbdf493eb5547785762fe7851857815aa16a1.jpg)
Evanovich, Janet
1943 -
An American writer, born as Janet Schneider in South River, New Jersey. As a child, she preferred drawing over writing, and...
Further reading![Portrait image of James Herbert](images/writer/745/6409fff7e55d10d2337f588a17cd1893ed6094ce78564.jpg)
Herbert, James
1943 - 2013
James Herbert from England was one of the best-selling and most praised authors of horror fiction in the late 20th century....
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