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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 Nora Roberts](images/writer/2752/619ae2b7136e9184d559699b2b23ec16f6477f2e52040.jpg)
Roberts, Nora
1950 -
The American author Nora Roberts was born as Eleanor Marie Robertson in Silver Spring, Maryland. She grew up as the only...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Lethem, Jonathan](images/writer/2979/wm_BR_2979_20140321105258_Large.jpg)
Lethem, Jonathan
1964 -
The extremely prolific American author Jonathan Allen Lethem is best known for his crime novels, many of them with science...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Tvedt, Chris](images/writer/6741/wm_BR_6741_20160316145447_Large.jpg)
Tvedt, Chris
1954 -
The Norwegian author Baard Christian Tvedt was born in Bergen. He read architecture at the University of Birmingham, but...
Further reading![Portrait of Tami Hoag](images/writer/3606/609a9a88f05aca0783e7af67a19a2e675670e1b7e966d.jpg)
Hoag, Tami
1959 -
Tami Hoag is an American author. She was born in Cresco, Iowa, and grew up in the small town of Harmony in southeast...
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