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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 James Crumley](images/writer/5220/609a4db4281bdb4e272e8c4e3b342920f0467db8d1ab7.jpg)
Crumley, James
1939 - 2008
The American author and teacher James Arthur Crumley never reached bestseller status. However, he was instrumental in the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Collins, Wilkie](images/writer/2056/2056.jpg)
Collins, Wilkie
1824 - 1889
The British author Wilkie Collins (William Wilkie Collins) wrote a series of extremely successful novels as well as a...
Further reading![Portrait of Louise Penny](images/writer/6113/60992050686647e665e9d8689a4e8a4caeb9efe53d453.jpg)
Penny, Louise
1958 -
The Canadian author, Louise Penny, grew up in Toronto. She studied Journalism and worked as a TV and radio producer. She...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Beckett, Simon](images/writer/5431/wm_BR_5431_20140321102231_Large.jpg)
Beckett, Simon
1960 -
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...
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