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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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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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Yorke, Margaret
1924 - 2012
Margaret Yorke is the pseudonym of the popular English author of crime fiction Margaret Nicholson. She has been described...
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Piglia, Ricardo
1941 - 2017
Argentinian novelist, critic, essayist and university lecturer born in the city of Adrogué 200 kilometres south of Buenos ...
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Musso, Guillaume
1974 -
Frenchman who has written a number of thrillers which have been translated into many languages, and who is said to be the...
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