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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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Koontz, Dean R.
1945 -
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author of suspense literature. He was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a...
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James, P.D.
1920 - 2014
English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...
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Cook, Robin (1940-)
1940 -
American doctor, businessman and author, who has written a long row of thriller-like medical crime novels, many of which...
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Lockridge, Frances
1896 - 1963
The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also...
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