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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 Catherine Aird](images/writer/6532/5f5f26539ceade6c2e632dd54e146cdec3a3b74865e6e.jpg)
Aird, Catherine
1930 -
Catherine Aird is the pen name of the British crime writer Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. She was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire,...
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Goodwin, Jason
1964 -
Jason Goodwin is a British author and journalist. His mother, the bohemian author Jocasta Innes, and his father, the author...
Further reading![Portrait image of Liza Marklund](images/writer/2016/wm_BR_62e3e4bc9c64b903b2b15f41f34cc1da868b8839cc7b5.jpg)
Marklund, Liza
1962 -
Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund is a successful author and journalist whose crime novels are widely translated and adapted for...
Further reading![Portrait image of Stieg Larsson](images/writer/4191/62683d27eef0db6e7e62deb4b2dde641c381ccfd20731.jpg)
Larsson, Stieg
1954 - 2004
Stieg Larsson was a Swedish author and journalist who, despite only publishing three novels, is one of Sweden’s b...
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