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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 Fitzek, Sebastian](images/writer/6846/wm_BR_6846_20160404182225_Large.jpg)
Fitzek, Sebastian
1971 -
The German author and game constructor Sebastian Fitzek was born in Berlin. After studying at Charlottenburger...
Further reading![Portrait of Anne McCaffrey](images/writer/7508/609a978493aef7e406c604b611d2bfa66f38614c534b9.jpg)
McCaffrey, Anne
1926 - 2011
The American author Anne McCaffrey has gained great international popularity with stories that are a wilful mixture of SF...
Further reading![Portrait of Norman Mailer](images/writer/1110/662a5cb974ba0f044f18559b605c9e990acb4be9fbe60.jpg)
Mailer, Norman
1923 - 2007
The American author, journalist and public debater Norman (in reality Nachem Malek) Mailer was born in Long Branch, New...
Further reading![Portrait of Peter Corris](images/writer/6766/609a8cdf851ac87d6bb56ffa11c19228e8fa95621be7d.jpg)
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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