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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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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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Durbridge, Francis
1912 - 1998
The British crime writer Francis Durbridge was born in Hull in Yorkshire. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School in...
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Burke, James Lee
1936 -
James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf...
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Cross, Amanda
1926 - 2003
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was a successful American academic, feminist and author of a series of mystery novels published under...
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