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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 Brian Freemantle

Freemantle, Brian
1936 -

Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended...

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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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Författarporträtt av Goodis, David

Goodis, David
1917 - 1967

The American author David Goodis is ranked as one of the greatest names in ‘noir’ literature, and some of his novels have bee...

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Portrait of Julie Parsons

Parsons, Julie
1951 -

Writer of detective stories Julie Parsons was born and grew up in New Zealand, to which her Irish parents had emigrated in...

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