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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 Michael Moorcock](images/writer/3473/60992f1a39f2524d472dbace1be0cbb4beeefac3927f4.jpg)
Moorcock, Michael
1939 -
The British author, editor and musician Michael John Moorcock is something of a phenomenon. He began his career as the...
Further reading![Portrait image of Freeman Wills Crofts](images/writer/5502/6197d28b84ca9487d9373f31216990d470233a14527f8.jpg)
Crofts, Freeman Wills
1879 - 1957
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young....
Further reading![Portrait of Joseph Wambaugh](images/writer/1828/609a4b9dac3b825b6f8ad85c4aa2f3a4664988f61498e.jpg)
Wambaugh, Joseph
1937 -
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. is an American author and former detective sergeant. He is best known for his police...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Hammesfahr, Petra](images/writer/3574/wm_BR_3574_20160323123513_Large.jpg)
Hammesfahr, Petra
1951 -
Petra Hammesfahr is an award-winning, bestselling German author of crime fiction. All her principal characters are women....
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