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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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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 image of Leslie Thomas](images/writer/2396/6193e1b8ec9bf95978d311a1c85d5e378b889d1c35dcc.jpg)
Thomas, Leslie
1931 - 2014
The Welsh author Leslie Thomas was born in Newport, South Wales. He is one of the most popular British late 20th century...
Further reading![Portrait of Sue Grafton](images/writer/634/5f649af008445e48c54a34395326d2bee96a94e75bd8f.jpg)
Grafton, Sue
1940 - 2017
Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author of detective novels born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father, Cornelius Warren...
Further reading![Portrait image of Guillaume Musso](images/writer/7714/620134efde675a360f1d552a7763f670da30872323917.jpg)
Musso, Guillaume
1974 -
Frenchman who has written a number of thrillers which have been translated into many languages, and who is said to be the...
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