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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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Camilleri, Andrea
1925 - 2019
Italian author and theatre/film producer, born in the industrial town Porto Empedocle in Agrigento province on the south...
Further reading![Portrait image of Mika Waltari](images/writer/1826/62682debc2c1167de2f53fef44bd6fddb5103cd347fd9.jpg)
Waltari, Mika
1908 - 1979
The Finnish author Mika Waltari is considered one of the foremost Nordic authors of the 20th century. Many of his books are...
Further reading![Portrait of Susan Hill](images/writer/762/609a9376b86cee2508fafb543fdd6c8f25ff4f0adb760.jpg)
Hill, Susan
1942 -
Susan Hill is a British author. In 1961, she published the first of the over 50 works she has produced over her...
Further reading![Portrait of T. Jefferson Parker](images/writer/3048/60903fffaada074f45ed4aeeb8f3e7f90313623e4142b.jpg)
Parker, T. Jefferson
1953 -
T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the...
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