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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 Peter Spiegelman

Spiegelman, Peter
1958 -

The American crime writer Peter Spiegelman was born in New York. He grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and has lived there...

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Författarporträtt av Allen, Grant

Allen, Grant
1848 - 1899

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was a British philosopher, natural scientist and journalist. His support for evolutionary...

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Författarporträtt av Walters, Minette

Walters, Minette
1949 -

Minette Walters is an author of crime fiction born Minette Jebb in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. Her father w...

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Portrait image of John Fowles

Fowles, John
1926 - 2005

John Robert Fowles was born in a middle-class family in the Essex town of Leigh-on-Sea. His father, Robert Fowles, dreamt...

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