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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 Grebe, Camilla](images/writer/6065/wm_BL_59945b764b9ba1c686ff2899f6d2f17950d4c245553da.jpg)
Grebe, Camilla
1968 -
The Swedish writer, Camilla Grebe (born Eriksson), has written a series of crime novels, both herself and in collaboration...
Further reading![Portrait image of Johan Theorin](images/writer/4635/wm_BR_4635_20140210104321_Large.jpg)
Theorin, Johan
1963 -
Johan Theorin is a Swedish author and journalist. He was born in Gothenburg and grew up in Nora, where he moved with his...
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Whitehead, Colson
1969 -
American writer Art Colson Chipp Whitehead spent his early years at 139th Riverside in Harlem, a tough place by his...
Further reading![Portrait of Lois Duncan](images/writer/6533/6095687633cff44b039ec9bccae6776c2de3ba57dddc7.jpg)
Duncan, Lois
1934 - 2016
Lois Duncan Steinmetz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the daughter of Joseph Steinmetz and his wife Lois Duncan,...
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