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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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![Författarporträtt av Wells, Carolyn](images/writer/6848/6848_20160219102031.jpg)
Wells, Carolyn
1862 - 1942
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1...
Further reading![Portrait of Stephen King](images/writer/937/609aa7325b91180e35032646d2020645fa908126c0a2e.jpg)
King, Stephen
1947 -
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Rivas, Manuel](images/writer/6409/wm_BR_6409_20141106164659_Large.jpg)
Rivas, Manuel
1957 -
Manuel Rivas is a Spanish novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and journalist born in La Coruña, Galicia in northwest ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Persson Giolito, Malin](images/writer/5105/wm_BR_5105_20160929012052_Large.jpg)
Persson Giolito, Malin
1969 -
When Malin Persson Giolito was still called only Persson, she grew up in Djursholm, Stockholm. Her mother, who was the...
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