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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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Lacy, Ed
1911 - 1968
Crime writer Ed Lacy, pseudonym for journalist Leonard ‘Len’ S. Zinberg, was born in New York. When he was little, his par...
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Parra, Nicanor
1914 - 2018
Nicano Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean, self-confessed "antipoet", artist, mathematician and physicist born in San...
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Fo, Dario
1926 - 2016
Italian playwright and actor, born in Sangiano in northern Italy. The father worked as a station master while the mother...
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Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat
1689 - 1755
French man of letters and political philosopher; after Voltaire the most important cultural influence in France and in...
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