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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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Alsterdal, Tove
1960 -
Swedish author, dramatist and journalist Tove Alsterdal has her roots in Norrbotten and Värmland. Her mother, sociologist ...
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James, P.D.
1920 - 2014
English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...
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Corris, Peter
1942 - 2018
Peter Robert Corris was an Australian author, historian, journalist and pioneering author of crime fiction in Australia....
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Glauser, Friedrich
1896 - 1938
The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland....
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