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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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Marsh, Ngaio
1895 - 1982
The New Zealand author Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh was born in Merivale, Christchurch. Her father was an immigrant English bank...
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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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Ellroy, James
1948 -
Having revolutionized crime fiction in terms of language and style, James Ellroy is now one of America’s foremost c...
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Osman, Richard
1970 -
Richard Osman is an English comedian, TV-personality and programme presenter who made his international writing...
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