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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 Graham Greene](images/writer/644/60990febd8a26a39ca6571e31b7ef78525b7a256ef0d0.jpg)
Greene, Graham
1904 - 1991
Henry Graham Greene was a British author and journalist born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, who became one of the foremost...
Further reading![Portrait of Jakob Arjouni](images/writer/3133/606f08223557b9bda1afdcac2bfc6c12deb91eaece43f.jpg)
Arjouni, Jakob
1964 - 2013
Pseudonym for the German author and dramatist Jakob Bothe. He was born as Jakob Michelsen in Frankfurt am Main as the son...
Further reading![Portrait image of Candice Fox](images/writer/6801/640a363306b9457e1613398f172e287328cc5d4c2dd82.jpg)
Fox, Candice
1985 -
Australian crime-fiction writer and teacher, born and raised in Bankstown, which is close to Sydney where she now lives....
Further reading![Portrait of Desmond Bagley](images/writer/126/60995cf099049d6bb31a30c0abf0bc96f2d1a69e6456f.jpg)
Bagley, Desmond
1923 - 1983
British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake...
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