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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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![Författarporträtt av Baldacci, David](images/writer/2554/5f8855440f10a5bc43009146bbca5a370b9cdb1543135.jpg)
Baldacci, David
1960 -
The American author David Baldacci, with family roots in Toscana in Italy, was born in Richmond, Virginia, as the youngest...
Further reading![Portrait image of Agatha Christie](images/writer/321/6197b895b0cf8c9a54b02a9946620bb1352e2052bd7bd.jpg)
Christie, Agatha
1890 - 1976
English detective writer, born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in an affluent middle-class home in Torquay in Devon County....
Further reading![Portrait image of H.R.F. Keating](images/writer/2975/6197e654da3d48ea6c27db2c3614884f30783a5ab5a73.jpg)
Keating, H.R.F.
1926 - 2011
Henry Raymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating is a British author born at St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He was educated in the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Alsterdal, Tove](images/writer/6004/wm_BR_6004_20150907104112_Large.jpg)
Alsterdal, Tove
1960 -
Swedish author, dramatist and journalist Tove Alsterdal has her roots in Norrbotten and Värmland. Her mother, sociologist ...
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