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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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Chambers, Aidan
1934 -
British author of books for children and young adults born north of Durham, near the town of Chester-le-Street. His father...
Further reading![Portrait image of Herman Melville](images/writer/1169/61d5b130c98ed2991c60fe86f5d70ad3e2259ca6be382.jpg)
Melville, Herman
1819 - 1891
American author born in New York. Melville came from a wealthy family, but when his merchant father went bankrupt, he was...
Further reading![Portrait image of Fredrik Skagen](images/writer/1585/62697f18d8898b3f6846e4e369b98b6a831dae3812ed1.jpg)
Skagen, Fredrik
1936 - 2017
Fredrik Skagen is one of Norway’s most popular award-winning crime writers. He was born in Trondheim where he lived all his l...
Further reading![Portrait image of Max Seeck](images/writer/7991/643538ac7fc0bdbb78ee057c09dbaddbafe5980c9c5c3.jpg)
Seeck, Max
1985 -
Max Seeck is a Finnish novelist and film producer. He lives in Esbo with his wife and two children. Seeck holds an MBA...
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