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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 Claudia Piñeiro](images/writer/6079/60941e75c4544cd2a5a3509fb1985e5aaf1aebefd10bc.jpg)
Piñeiro, Claudia
1960 -
Argentinian author born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires. Claudia Piñeiro started reading social sciences, but she switched to ...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dashiell Hammett](images/writer/692/61926aacc63afbffa299fd7d71e60212c31220aa8782f.jpg)
Hammett, Dashiell
1894 - 1961
American detective writer, born in St. Mary's County in Maryland. He grew up in Baltimore where his family moved when he...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Goddard, Robert](images/writer/3349/wm_BL_3349_20160419152018_Large.jpg)
Goddard, Robert
1954 -
Robert Goddard is a popular, much-translated and lauded British thriller writer with an unusual and highly personal style....
Further reading![Portrait of Tana French](images/writer/5906/6093f20125c08e622a8f8ea05fe5f4f0203c81629f0c1.jpg)
French, Tana
1973 -
Crime writer and actress Tana French was born in Burlington, Vermont, USA. Her father was an economist and worked all...
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