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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 image of Per Wahlöö](images/writer/1813/6266cccf6bb27093757c57574453fce3e516e780d17ec.jpg)
Wahlöö, Per
1926 - 1975
Per Fredrik Wahlöö was a Swedish author born in Kungsbacka. His father was a newspaper editor in Lund. Per Wahlöö passed his...
Further reading![Portrait of Laurie R. King](images/writer/936/6093f659c466786256e2b92b17f2cff66e8e40e48db87.jpg)
King, Laurie R.
1952 -
American author and theologian, born as Laurie Richardson in Oakland, California. The family moved several times within the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Unsworth, Barry](images/writer/1768/1768_20140102075151.jpg)
Unsworth, Barry
1930 - 2012
The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from...
Further reading![Portrait of Julie Parsons](images/writer/3056/609419ce9d0b45180953b2621b06a6518a9851f9280ee.jpg)
Parsons, Julie
1951 -
Writer of detective stories Julie Parsons was born and grew up in New Zealand, to which her Irish parents had emigrated in...
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