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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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Ohlsson, Kristina
1979 -
The Swedish author Kristina Ohlsson was born and grew up in Kristianstad as one of six siblings. As a child she was sickly,...
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McCaffrey, Anne
1926 - 2011
The American author Anne McCaffrey has gained great international popularity with stories that are a wilful mixture of SF...
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Jungstedt, Mari
1962 -
Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster and author born in Stockholm. Her parents were very young when they...
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Crais, Robert
1953 -
Robert Crais is an American author born in Independence, Louisiana, and brought up on the banks of the Mississippi River in...
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