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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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Theorin, Johan
1963 -
Johan Theorin is a Swedish author and journalist. He was born in Gothenburg and grew up in Nora, where he moved with his...
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Bauer, Belinda
1962 -
As a child, the British author Belinda Bauer spent ten years in South Africa during apartheid. Her father was a dentist...
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Westlake, Donald E.
1933 - 2008
Donald Edwin Westlake was an American author of Irish descent born in Brooklyn, New York. As a small boy, he moved with his...
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Carr, John Dickson
1906 - 1977
American author of detective stories born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His father was a criminal lawyer and politician who...
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