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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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It is 159 years today since William Butler Yeats was born.
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin to an Anglo-Irish family, but he spent most of his life in England and France. His father was a successful portrait painter, and the young Yeats intended to follow in his footsteps. He attended the School of Art in Dublin, but after three years he abandoned art for literature.
He published his first poetry collection, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other...
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
1896 - 1940
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (F. Scott Fitzgerald) was an American novelist and author of short stories born in St. Paul,...
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Louÿs, Pierre
1870 - 1925
Pierre Félix Louÿs was a French poet and novelist. He was born to a wealthy family in Ghent, Belgium, in somewhat unclear c...
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis
1904 - 1991
Isaac Bashevis Singer, born Izak Hersz Zynger, was the last of the great 20th century authors in Yiddish. He was born in...
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Gosling, Paula
1939 -
The American author Paula Gosling was born in Detroit, Michigan, as Paula Osius. By the time she attended Mackenzie High...
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