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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 Friedrich Glauser](images/writer/4837/618d2c4341bb1171dfb1646124fae26fd307132816e63.jpg)
Glauser, Friedrich
1896 - 1938
The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland....
Further reading![Portrait image of Gavin Lyall](images/writer/6783/619ad6f7692a8f7d30900d5f6fdfa3b42fce0da47843e.jpg)
Lyall, Gavin
1932 - 2003
Gavin Tudor Lyall was a British author of espionage thrillers. He was born in Birmingham, England, where he attended the...
Further reading![Portrait image of Rex Stout](images/writer/1640/619ae56c6655bb901e6f78e0fb448eec8bd806420c6f9.jpg)
Stout, Rex
1886 - 1975
The American author Rex Todhunter Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana, as the sixth of nine children to John and Lucetta...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Harper, Jane](images/writer/7092/wm_BL_5a059994497c2d67e7976e0707c3b74a294c583156bce.jpg)
Harper, Jane
1980 -
Jane Harper was born in Manchester, England. When she was eight years old she moved with her family to Australia. For six...
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