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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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Pronzini, Bill
1943 -
The extremely prolific American author William John "Bill" Pronzini is the prize-winning author of over a hundred works of...
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Winslow, Don
1953 -
Don Winslow is an American novelist and former private investigator. He was born in New York. His father was a US Navy...
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Keeler, Harry Stephen
1890 - 1967
The American author Harry Stephen Keeler was one of a kind. He wrote some seventy novels that are a blend of crime fiction,...
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Schulman, Ninni
1972 -
The Swedish author Ninni Schulman was born as Karin Jessica Christina Olofsdotter-Jansson at Rämmen in Värmland province, a...
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