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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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Du Maurier, Daphne
1907 - 1989
The British novelist and playwright Daphne du Maurier was born in London to parents who were both prominent actors; her...
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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...
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Rivas, Manuel
1957 -
Manuel Rivas is a Spanish novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and journalist born in La Coruña, Galicia in northwest ...
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Mailer, Norman
1923 - 2007
The American author, journalist and public debater Norman (in reality Nachem Malek) Mailer was born in Long Branch, New...
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