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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 Lockridge, Frances](images/writer/7250/5c0f9904d3e555b27d4e778400f98346be1eee829a435.jpg)
Lockridge, Frances
1896 - 1963
The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also...
Further reading![Portrait of Catherine Aird](images/writer/6532/5f5f26539ceade6c2e632dd54e146cdec3a3b74865e6e.jpg)
Aird, Catherine
1930 -
Catherine Aird is the pen name of the British crime writer Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. She was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire,...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Liffner, Eva-Marie](images/writer/2913/2913_20150202110012_Large.jpg)
Liffner, Eva-Marie
1957 -
Eva-Marie Liffner is a Swedish author and journalist born in Gothenburg and raised in Frölunda in the 1950s, where she ...
Further reading![Portrait of Lois Duncan](images/writer/6533/6095687633cff44b039ec9bccae6776c2de3ba57dddc7.jpg)
Duncan, Lois
1934 - 2016
Lois Duncan Steinmetz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the daughter of Joseph Steinmetz and his wife Lois Duncan,...
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