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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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Whitehead, Colson
1969 -
American writer Art Colson Chipp Whitehead spent his early years at 139th Riverside in Harlem, a tough place by his...
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Lewis, Mary
1907 - 1988
Writing as Christianna Brand, Mary Lewis, born Mary Christianna Milne, was one of Britain’s foremost crime writers and c...
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Sjöwall, Maj
1935 - 2020
Maj Sjöwall was a Swedish author, journalist and translator born in Stockholm. Having been married twice between 1955 and ...
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Yorke, Margaret
1924 - 2012
Margaret Yorke is the pseudonym of the popular English author of crime fiction Margaret Nicholson. She has been described...
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