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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 Jo Spain](images/writer/7393/609423c28f096829436cf9cb3a4dc89f1e14aeea953c2.jpg)
Spain, Jo
1979 -
The Irish author Joanne ‘Jo’ Spain was born into a working-class family in the little notorious residential district of Bel...
Further reading![Portrait of Frances Fyfield](images/writer/583/603e7ddac0c59b4fb42cfffbdb6171110734c5d5849d4.jpg)
Fyfield, Frances
1948 -
Frances Fyfield is the pseudonym of the British crime-writer Frances Hegarty who grew up in Derbyshire, England. Her father...
Further reading![Portrait of Elizabeth George](images/writer/609/603e87b47c28d3a18fff5ec54db130b934b3170fa77ca.jpg)
George, Elizabeth
1949 -
Susan Elizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio. Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950, and Elizabeth...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dennis Wheatley](images/writer/1857/619ae9c2380c4448c1a90f3f70f1506bd1ec6129ae770.jpg)
Wheatley, Dennis
1897 - 1977
The British author and wine merchant Dennis Yeats Wheatley was one of the foremost 20th century authors of thrillers and...
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