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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 image of Sofie Sarenbrant](images/writer/5792/wm_BR_5792_20160929014159_Large.jpg)
Sarenbrant, Sofie
1978 -
Author and freelance journalist Sofie Sarenbrant (born Sjöstedt) grew up on Narebo Gård in Gusum, in Valdemarsvik m...
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Post, Melville Davisson
1869 - 1930
Melville Davisson Post was an American lawyer, politician, author and remembered as the first great American crime writer...
Further reading![Portrait of Aaron Elkins](images/writer/467/607492e9ab0209651b2d53aec5c77199b66edffc45a04.jpg)
Elkins, Aaron
1935 -
Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College,...
Further reading![Portrait of James Runcie](images/writer/6910/609a865e9663069c740c8b1250023637b704a128b1afd.jpg)
Runcie, James
1959 -
James Robert Runcie is an author, documentary film maker, television producer and playwright. He was born in Cambridge and...
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