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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 Nora Roberts](images/writer/2752/619ae2b7136e9184d559699b2b23ec16f6477f2e52040.jpg)
Roberts, Nora
1950 -
The American author Nora Roberts was born as Eleanor Marie Robertson in Silver Spring, Maryland. She grew up as the only...
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Smith, Martin Cruz
1942 -
Martin Cruz Smith, born Martin William Smith, is an American author of thrillers born in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father...
Further reading![Portrait of Stella Rimington](images/writer/6007/609a506f343f51f817fbc5831a44ac8e8171d9613d4a0.jpg)
Rimington, Stella
1935 -
Dame Stella Rimington is a British author of spy novels. She is a former intelligence officer, she was the first female...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Holt, Anne](images/writer/785/wm_TR_785_20150907155449_Large.jpg)
Holt, Anne
1958 -
Anne Holt is a Norwegian crime writer born in Larvik. She read law at the University of Bergen, graduating in 1986. She...
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