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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 Donald E. Westlake](images/writer/1852/609a4caaa4d72df787f88fa184dd7ea3a9fc3662598ed.jpg)
Westlake, Donald E.
1933 - 2008
Donald Edwin Westlake was an American author of Irish descent born in Brooklyn, New York. As a small boy, he moved with his...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Peace, David](images/writer/5399/wm_BR_5399_20130821174028_Large.jpg)
Peace, David
1967 -
David Peace is a British novelist. He was born and raised in Osset near Leeds in Yorkshire. He was educated in Wakefield,...
Further reading![Portrait of Desmond Bagley](images/writer/126/60995cf099049d6bb31a30c0abf0bc96f2d1a69e6456f.jpg)
Bagley, Desmond
1923 - 1983
British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake...
Further reading![Portrait image of Åsa Nilsonne](images/writer/1251/wm_BR_62e3de467769fb119ce0b1509e71cd2a5268b397b1161.jpg)
Nilsonne, Åsa
1949 -
Åsa Nilsonne is a Swedish psychiatrist, translator and crime writer. She was born in Stockholm, but as the daughter of a ...
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