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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 of Steven Saylor](images/writer/4439/60942000457073d5d175fa6bc92fb076edc924fe475f0.jpg)
Saylor, Steven
1956 -
The American author Steven Saylor has pursued two separate literary careers. In the 1980s and early ‘90s he was one of the m...
Further reading![Portrait of Desmond Bagley](images/writer/126/60995cf099049d6bb31a30c0abf0bc96f2d1a69e6456f.jpg)
Bagley, Desmond
1923 - 1983
British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake...
Further reading![Portrait of John D. MacDonald](images/writer/2981/609937feaf107a24e2537f9e6b9542cf96fc882a4f535.jpg)
MacDonald, John D.
1916 - 1986
The American author John Dann MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania. His father (who was of Scottish ancestry) pursued...
Further reading![Portrait image of David Lagercrantz](images/writer/3301/wm_BR_65295262a3472916e15b6b3eabde1900fd0727ad211f8.jpg)
Lagercrantz, David
1962 -
David Lagercrantz is a Swedish author and journalist born in Solna and brought up there and in Drottningholm, both near...
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