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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 of Hillary Waugh](images/writer/2988/609934cfe24bca0fb6e0eef5f10f764796d993b0a415c.jpg)
Waugh, Hillary
1920 - 2008
The American mystery novelist Hillary Baldwin Waugh was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Hillhouse...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Zangwill, Israel](images/writer/5557/5557_20130305171955.jpg)
Zangwill, Israel
1864 - 1926
Israel Zangwill was a British Jewish author. His father had emigrated from Lithuania and his mother was a Polish refugee....
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Mishani, Dror
1975 -
Dror Mishani is an Israeli crime writer, born and raised in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon. He is also a translator, literary...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Barclay, Linwood](images/writer/5785/5f8876c70a069ed2aaf59481e5a66893e06dac02fada5.jpg)
Barclay, Linwood
1955 -
Canadian-American author, born in Darien, Connecticut in the USA. Just before his fourth birthday, the family moved to...
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