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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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Griffiths, Elly
1963 -
The English author Domenica Maxted – known as a crime writer under the pseudonym Elly Griffiths – was born in London as Dom...
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Kutscher, Volker
1962 -
The German author Volker Kutscher was born in Lindlar and grew up in Wipperfürth near Köln (Cologne). He studied Germanic L...
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Lockridge, Frances
1896 - 1963
The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also...
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Uhnak, Dorothy
1930 - 2006
Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the...
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