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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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Balzac, Honoré de
1799 - 1850
Honoré de Balzac was born Honoré Balzac in Tours, France, to a civil servant and his wife who was 30 years his junior. He a...
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Nilsson, Per
1954 -
Swedish author, born in Malmö. Per Nilsson qualified as a teacher of Music and Mathematics. He worked as a secondary school ...
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Vigny, Alfred de
1797 - 1863
Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny, was a French author born in the town of Loches near Tours in central France as the son of a...
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Voltaire
1694 - 1778
French author, the son of a notary, born as François-Marie Arouet in Paris. When he was ten years old, he was admitted to ...
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