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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 Winslow, Don](images/writer/6614/wm_BR_6614_20160323142959_Large.jpg)
Winslow, Don
1953 -
Don Winslow is an American novelist and former private investigator. He was born in New York. His father was a US Navy...
Further reading![Portrait of Jack Higgins](images/writer/757/6095584c4265d8a480915192e4dae55431edafb25963e.jpg)
Higgins, Jack
1929 - 2022
British/Irish – he had double citizenship – author and former teacher, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was christened Henry P...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Tvedt, Chris](images/writer/6741/wm_BR_6741_20160316145447_Large.jpg)
Tvedt, Chris
1954 -
The Norwegian author Baard Christian Tvedt was born in Bergen. He read architecture at the University of Birmingham, but...
Further reading![Portrait of Donald Ray Pollock](images/writer/6543/6098f49e8be49189b961b2442897f7c1b0e40bfb9ac9f.jpg)
Pollock, Donald Ray
1954 -
The American author Donald Ray Pollock was born and grew up in America’s backyard. In the little community called K...
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