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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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Brown, Dan
1964 -
Dan Brown is an American author born as Daniel Brown in Exeter, New Hampshire. His father was a teacher of mathematics and...
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Rosenhayn, Paul
1877 - 1929
German journalist and internationally acclaimed author of detective stories, best known for his more than forty...
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Rimington, Stella
1935 -
Dame Stella Rimington is a British author of spy novels. She is a former intelligence officer, she was the first female...
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Bodelsen, Anders
1937 - 2021
Anders Bodelsen was a Danish author, journalist and critic born in the Copenhagen district of Frederiksberg. He then lived...
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