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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 Poe, Edgar Allan](images/writer/1387/1387_20150507172059_Large.jpg)
Poe, Edgar Allan
1809 - 1849
Edgar Allan Poe, born Edgar Poe, was an American author of Irish descent whose contribution to the horror, crime and...
Further reading![Portrait image of Vera Caspary](images/writer/5586/618164cc1efa8d7b414549a3d1b7bc3731c6255e959e5.jpg)
Caspary, Vera
1899 - 1987
The American author Vera Caspary spent a great deal of time and effort writing her popular screen and stage plays, but she...
Further reading![Portrait image of James Patterson](images/writer/2077/62680b5b666862d848e23bf096c2353bbfcc4f2c38099.jpg)
Patterson, James
1947 -
The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an...
Further reading![Portrait of Julie Parsons](images/writer/3056/609419ce9d0b45180953b2621b06a6518a9851f9280ee.jpg)
Parsons, Julie
1951 -
Writer of detective stories Julie Parsons was born and grew up in New Zealand, to which her Irish parents had emigrated in...
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