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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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Jansson, Anna
1958 -
The Swedish crime writer Anna Jansson was born in Visby on the island of Gotland. In 1979, she moved to Örebro where she ...
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Freeling, Nicolas
1927 - 2003
Nicholas Freeling was born Nicolas Davidson in London. His parents were English, but his mother had Dutch roots and the...
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Bely, Andrei
1880 - 1934
The Russian novelist, poet and critic Andrei (or Andrey) Bely was born in Moscow as Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev. His father...
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McMurtry, Larry
1936 - 2021
The American novelist Larry Jeff McMurtry was born and raised on a cattle farm in Archer City near Wichita Falls, Texas....
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