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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 of Lawrence Block

Block, Lawrence
1938 -

Lawrence Block is an American author of crime fiction born in Buffalo. He attended Antioch College, Ohio, between 1955 and...

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Portrait of John Verdon

Verdon, John
1942 -

John Verdon is an American crime writer, born in Bronx, New York. He was educated at Regis High School and Fordham...

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Författarporträtt av Bauer, Belinda

Bauer, Belinda
1962 -

As a child, the British author Belinda Bauer spent ten years in South Africa during apartheid. Her father was a dentist...

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Författarporträtt av Stribling, T.S.

Stribling, T.S.
1881 - 1965

The American author T.S. (Thomas Sigismund) Stribling was born in the little town of Clifton in Tennessee. His father had...

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