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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 Michael Bond](images/writer/4834/662a38dfcd092fffe291a5287119ffe015ab3774f5468.jpg)
Bond, Michael
1926 - 2017
The British author Thomas Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England. He attended Presentation College, Reading....
Further reading![Portrait image of Eric Ambler](images/writer/50/6197862993aee1be23c4d40bafbfd9b2da2f1535c0e68.jpg)
Ambler, Eric
1909 - 1998
Eric Clifford Ambler was a British author and playwright born in London. His parents were music hall artists, and at the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Lasdun, James](images/writer/6240/wm_BR_6240_20130916142127_Large.jpg)
Lasdun, James
1958 -
English author and poet, born and brought up in London, but has lived in the USA since 1986. James Lasdun gained a B.A....
Further reading![Portrait of James Lee Burke](images/writer/266/609a8e48283ef21e976f169a01cbb69587498f71ae99a.jpg)
Burke, James Lee
1936 -
James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf...
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