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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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Queen, Ellery
Pseudonym
Ellery Queen is a pen name shared by Frederic Dannay, born Daniel Nathan, and Manfred B. (Bennington) Lee, born Manford...
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Robinson, Peter
1950 - 2022
Peter Robinson is a Canadian author born in Castleford, Yorkshire, England. He was a wayward teenager with little interest...
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Taylor, Andrew
1951 -
The British author Andrew John Robert Taylor was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and grew up in East Anglia. He attended...
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McClure, James
1939 - 2006
The journalist and author James "Jim" McClure’s Scottish parents left for South Africa in 1930, and he was subsequently b...
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