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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 Robotham](images/writer/4682/609a51ac0fe18181efe3ec688cd56505d7473a5018647.jpg)
Robotham, Michael
1960 -
Michael Robotham is an Australian author of crime novels and a ghost writer. He was born in Casino, New South Wales,...
Further reading![Portrait image of Liza Marklund](images/writer/2016/wm_BR_62e3e4bc9c64b903b2b15f41f34cc1da868b8839cc7b5.jpg)
Marklund, Liza
1962 -
Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund is a successful author and journalist whose crime novels are widely translated and adapted for...
Further reading![Portrait of John (f. 1926) Gardner](images/writer/3419/609958afc4fb186530bdbfba83a39e072f06e51d5a6e6.jpg)
Gardner, John (b. 1926)
1926 - 2007
John Edmund Gardner was a British novelist. He was born in the village of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland as the son of a...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Brown, Dan](images/writer/3571/5f88c6218dcb89328481bbd94fdccb6d6c736fc79fd47.jpg)
Brown, Dan
1964 -
Dan Brown is an American author born as Daniel Brown in Exeter, New Hampshire. His father was a teacher of mathematics and...
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