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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 Bussi, Michel](images/writer/7401/5f88cd619a693841a688d5135917cb66d891e1d65a77b.jpg)
Bussi, Michel
1965 -
Michel Bussi, born in northern France, is a well-known scientist, since the 1990s a professor of Geo-politics – a s...
Further reading![Portrait of John Katzenbach](images/writer/6548/60367e4ac3ac1c992b47e865036fe6cbc9f978964c812.jpg)
Katzenbach, John
1950 -
American author and journalist, son of the famous and politically very active lawyer Nicholas Katzenbach, later the US...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Le Queux, William](images/writer/7847/627c9eab8b2b903cebb5e3bf6d28ee34d87b642b00538.jpg)
Le Queux, William
1864 - 1927
One of the most remarkable, and most productive, British authors in the early 20th century was William Le Queux who wrote...
Further reading![Portrait of Gore Vidal](images/writer/1794/6037ecf51b12f82963c3a7f278acdf0298913a6f41dab.jpg)
Vidal, Gore
1925 - 2012
The American novelist and essayist Gore Vidal was born at West Point, New York. He was originally christened Eugene Vidal,...
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