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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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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...
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Boyd, William
1952 -
The British author William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana. His father, a doctor, and his mother, a teacher, moved to The...
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Katzenbach, John
1950 -
American author and journalist, son of the famous and politically very active lawyer Nicholas Katzenbach, later the US...
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Collins, Wilkie
1824 - 1889
The British author Wilkie Collins (William Wilkie Collins) wrote a series of extremely successful novels as well as a...
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