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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 Daniel Woodrell](images/writer/3540/609a881674a8737703c3c9e825b886720445a80055bcd.jpg)
Woodrell, Daniel
1953 -
Daniell Woodrell is an American author born in Springfield, a town situated in the Missouri Ozarks, a plateau and mountain...
Further reading![Portrait of Qiu Xiaolong](images/writer/4412/60995728af0d252bf0a88a2e9bb9b00a814402f412b1c.jpg)
Qiu Xiaolong
1953 -
Qiu Xiaolong is a Chinese author, poet, translator and scholar. He was born in Shanghai and grew up in post-revolution...
Further reading![Portrait image of P.D. James](images/writer/845/662a59e62e1ab1f5dc70241b04e747c811f65e32e680f.jpg)
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...
Further reading![Portrait of Janet Evanovich](images/writer/3096/60749583dbdf493eb5547785762fe7851857815aa16a1.jpg)
Evanovich, Janet
1943 -
An American writer, born as Janet Schneider in South River, New Jersey. As a child, she preferred drawing over writing, and...
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