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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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![Portrait image of Lillian Hellman](images/writer/6810/629949914e1e653b153cb13913b7c24f9a8b876aa09a8.jpg)
Hellman, Lillian
1905 - 1984
Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellman was a playwright, biographer and activist born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a...
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Cendrars, Blaise
1887 - 1961
The Swiss-French author Blaise Cendrars was born as Frédéric-Louis Sauser in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. His f...
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Mantel, Hilary
1952 - 2022
The English author Hilary Mary Mantel (born Thompson) was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, and grew up in Hadfield. The family...
Further reading![Portrait image of Deborah Levy](images/writer/6345/615efed38312f1dfd17719aa766fecb2e44911f83d5e0.jpg)
Levy, Deborah
1959 -
The British playwright and novelist Deborah Levy was born in South Africa. Her father, a Jewish historian who was a friend...
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