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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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Grafton, Sue
1940 - 2017
Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author of detective novels born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father, Cornelius Warren...
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Woods, Stuart
1938 - 2022
Stuart Woods was an American author of crime fiction and former racing sailor whose first novel is now considered a crime...
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Grimes, Martha
1931 -
Martha Grimes is an American author of detective stories born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a lawyer, died when...
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McCall Smith, Alexander
1948 -
The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British col...
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