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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 Stribling, T.S.](images/writer/2436/5a8ae9784d74bb4bff173185df090128ec9062b811329.jpg)
Stribling, T.S.
1881 - 1965
The American author T.S. (Thomas Sigismund) Stribling was born in the little town of Clifton in Tennessee. His father had...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Parsons, Tony](images/writer/3019/wm_BR_59d26e1483f2e02e8e10b93b5a7330278d06d42731705.jpg)
Parsons, Tony
1953 -
English author and journalist, born and grew up as the only child in a working-class family in Romford, Essex. When Tony...
Further reading![Portrait of Volker Kutscher](images/writer/7211/60991225dac149ed1e659577efece4df176faa9661806.jpg)
Kutscher, Volker
1962 -
The German author Volker Kutscher was born in Lindlar and grew up in Wipperfürth near Köln (Cologne). He studied Germanic L...
Further reading![Portrait of Nevada Barr](images/writer/6595/60747af350c867d9ab9ed5541b2f5bc81b5d2b98ff1c9.jpg)
Barr, Nevada
1952 -
Nevada Barr is an author and artist born in Yerington, Nevada. In 1954, she moved with her family to Susanville in...
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