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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 Le Queux, William](images/writer/7847/627c9eab8b2b903cebb5e3bf6d28ee34d87b642b00538.jpg)
Le Queux, William
1864 - 1927
One of the most remarkable, and most productive, British authors in the early 20th century was William Le Queux who wrote...
Further reading![Portrait image of James M. Cain](images/writer/2088/618cf4437520ce40ca5f251ec798763ffa21cf7b137d1.jpg)
Cain, James M.
1892 - 1977
The American author and journalist James Mallahan Cain was a prominent figure in 20th century fiction. Alongside Dashiell...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dorothy Salisbury Davis](images/writer/2966/6197c7b5a47c9e8a275f39be3c1c5c6611761e47f5394.jpg)
Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
1916 - 2014
The American crime writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and adopted by an older childless couple,...
Further reading![Portrait of Norman Mailer](images/writer/1110/662a5cb974ba0f044f18559b605c9e990acb4be9fbe60.jpg)
Mailer, Norman
1923 - 2007
The American author, journalist and public debater Norman (in reality Nachem Malek) Mailer was born in Long Branch, New...
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