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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 Fulton Oursler](images/writer/7097/6193e61d11356a43b039a18d5a459e78cee471e75086c.jpg)
Oursler, Fulton
1893 - 1952
The American author, playwright and magazine editor Fulton Oursler was born in Baltimore in a poor middle-class family. He...
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Kepler, Lars
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Lars Kepler is the alias that the two writers and married couple Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril use when...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dorothy Uhnak](images/writer/1764/619ae8efcd50ef1cf961a5a842ef50a6688423a6d7dc6.jpg)
Uhnak, Dorothy
1930 - 2006
Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the...
Further reading![Portrait image of Liza Marklund](images/writer/2016/wm_BR_62e3e4bc9c64b903b2b15f41f34cc1da868b8839cc7b5.jpg)
Marklund, Liza
1962 -
Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund is a successful author and journalist whose crime novels are widely translated and adapted for...
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