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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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Lagerkvist, Pär
1891 - 1974
Swedish author, born in Växjö as the youngest of seven siblings. His father was a railway station supervisor, and Pär La...
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Cox, Anthony Berkeley
1893 - 1971
Anthony Berkeley Cox is regarded as one of the most influential authors in English crime literature during the inter-war...
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Atkinson, Kate
1951 -
The British author Kate Atkinson was born in York, her father was a shopkeeper. She read English literature at Dundee...
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Miller, Henry
1891 - 1980
American author born in New York to German parents – Miller did allegedly not learn English until he started school. After b...
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