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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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Cornwell, Patricia D.
1956 -
The American crime writer Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida, as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ d...
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Freemantle, Brian
1936 -
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended...
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Bond, Michael
1926 - 2017
The British author Thomas Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England. He attended Presentation College, Reading....
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Beckett, Simon
1960 -
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...
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