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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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Bradley, Alan
1938 -
Alan Bradley was born in Toronto, Canada. He grew up with his mother and two sisters in the town of Cobourg, about one...
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Collins, Max Allan
1948 -
A very productive American multitasker, known primarily as a crime author, born in Muscatine in Iowa. With the exception of...
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Vargas, Fred
1957 -
Fred Vargas is a pseudonym used by the French historian, archaeologist and crime writer Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau. "Vargas" w...
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Robotham, Michael
1960 -
Michael Robotham is an Australian author of crime novels and a ghost writer. He was born in Casino, New South Wales,...
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