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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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Smirnoff, Karin
1964 -
Karin Smirnoff has the same name as August Strindberg’s daughter, dramatist and author Karin Smirnoff (1880-1973) who also w...
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Grafton, Sue
1940 - 2017
Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author of detective novels born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father, Cornelius Warren...
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Woods, Stuart
1938 - 2022
Stuart Woods was an American author of crime fiction and former racing sailor whose first novel is now considered a crime...
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James, P.D.
1920 - 2014
English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...
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