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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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Day Lewis, Cecil
1904 - 1972
Irish poet, publisher and professor, and a British citizen from 1948. Cecil Day Lewis is one of the most prominent names in...
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MacBride, Stuart
1969 -
Stuart MacBride is a Scottish author of crime fiction. He was born in Dumbarton near Glasgow and grew up in Aberdeen where...
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McClure, James
1939 - 2006
The journalist and author James "Jim" McClure’s Scottish parents left for South Africa in 1930, and he was subsequently b...
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Gilbert, Michael
1912 - 2006
Michael Francis Gilbert was a British author of mystery stories and thrillers. He was born in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, and...
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