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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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Reilly, Helen
1891 - 1962
Critics often regard Helen Reilly as one of the most important female American crime writers of the 1930s. One reason for...
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Ellroy, James
1948 -
Having revolutionized crime fiction in terms of language and style, James Ellroy is now one of America’s foremost c...
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Roberts, Nora
1950 -
The American author Nora Roberts was born as Eleanor Marie Robertson in Silver Spring, Maryland. She grew up as the only...
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Pronzini, Bill
1943 -
The extremely prolific American author William John "Bill" Pronzini is the prize-winning author of over a hundred works of...
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