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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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France, Anatole
1844 - 1924
Anatole France, born in Paris as Anatole François Thibault, was a French novelist and poet. He grew up among books above ...
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Aretino, Pietro
1492 - 1556
Italian author born in Arezzo, Tuscany to a poor cobbler. He had little or no schooling, but he was clever and astute, and...
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Uri, Helene
1964 -
The Norwegian author and linguist Helene Uri was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and grew up in Bærum and Hageby, Oslo. Her ...
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
1821 - 1881
Russian author, born in Moscow. Fyodor Dostoyevsky lived his life against a dark background of both political and personal...
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