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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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![Författarporträtt av Wright, Willard Huntington](images/writer/5546/5546_20130305164442.jpg)
Wright, Willard Huntington
1888 - 1939
Willard Huntington Wright was an American critic and editor. He was born in Virginia, attended Harvard and later studied...
Further reading![Portrait of Robert Crais](images/writer/6416/6197c01c714a5fbbce3709861dffb6caacca6e8c56c1f.jpg)
Crais, Robert
1953 -
Robert Crais is an American author born in Independence, Louisiana, and brought up on the banks of the Mississippi River in...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Graham, Caroline](images/writer/4979/wm_BL_5a209f0652e9dc22e4db186149d58c578fa25dae6293b.jpg)
Graham, Caroline
1931 -
The withdrawn British novelist and playwright Caroline Graham is best known for her seven police novels about Detective...
Further reading![Portrait image of André Bjerke](images/writer/5925/621cec57647fa520419d900356c76c880faf7b0917d32.jpg)
Bjerke, André
1918 - 1985
André Bjerke was a prominent figure on the Norwegian culture scene in the 1990s. He was an authority on Norwegian post-war ...
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