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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 Staalesen, Gunnar](images/writer/1613/wm_BR_1613_20160316144455_Large.jpg)
Staalesen, Gunnar
1947 -
Norwegian author and playwright born in Bergen, where he still lives. Staalesen attended the Katedralskolan upper-secondary...
Further reading![Portrait of Carol O'Connell](images/writer/5228/609a9e9201183b5cdf1c4a7d0b48f6a99f9c195c37afe.jpg)
O'Connell, Carol
1947 -
Carol O’Connel is an American author and artist best known for her books about the ruthless hardboiled detective Kathleen "...
Further reading![Portrait of John D. MacDonald](images/writer/2981/609937feaf107a24e2537f9e6b9542cf96fc882a4f535.jpg)
MacDonald, John D.
1916 - 1986
The American author John Dann MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania. His father (who was of Scottish ancestry) pursued...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Doctorow, E.L.](images/writer/404/404_20140123090546.jpg)
Doctorow, E.L.
1931 - 2015
American author of Russian-Jewish descent who grew up in the Bronx where his father owned a record store and his mother was...
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