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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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Unsworth, Barry
1930 - 2012
The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from...
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Mosley, Walter
1952 -
American author, born in the tough and run-down South Central district in Los Angeles. His mother had a Russian-Jewish...
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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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Cross, Amanda
1926 - 2003
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was a successful American academic, feminist and author of a series of mystery novels published under...
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