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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 image of Eduardo Mendoza

Mendoza, Eduardo
1943 -

Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish author who lives in Barcelona. His father was a lawyer and his mother a housewife. He...

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Portrait image of John Hart

Hart, John
1965 -

John Hart is considered to be one of the great names in American crime fiction during the 21st century. All of his books...

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Pattison, Eliot
1951 -

The American author and lawyer, Joseph Eliot Pattison, was born in Philadelphia. He grew up on a farm run by his father;...

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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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