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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 image of Sofie Sarenbrant](images/writer/5792/wm_BR_5792_20160929014159_Large.jpg)
Sarenbrant, Sofie
1978 -
Author and freelance journalist Sofie Sarenbrant (born Sjöstedt) grew up on Narebo Gård in Gusum, in Valdemarsvik m...
Further reading![Portrait of Iain Pears](images/writer/2579/609aaacbdccf4480d4cc0bb1224f175ea9f96f9c7e952.jpg)
Pears, Iain
1955 -
Iain Pears is a British author, art historian and journalist. He was born in Coventry where his father was a company...
Further reading![Portrait image of Thomas Keneally](images/writer/919/61670c460617e769e29649c87ff89273f414711958b2b.jpg)
Keneally, Thomas
1935 -
The novelist and non-fiction writer Thomas ‘Tom’ Keneally descends from a family of Irish prisoners that were deported to Aus...
Further reading![Portrait of George P. Pelecanos](images/writer/3332/6099253934dd9da2d9241e60d4c55756502b798761af2.jpg)
Pelecanos, George P.
1957 -
The American author George Peter Pelecanos was born in Washington D.C. to Greek-American parents. The family moved to...
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