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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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Moberg, Vilhelm
1898 - 1973
The Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg was born and grew up in Algutsboda in the southern part of the province of Småland. His ...
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Kaminsky, Stuart M.
1934 - 2009
The productive American Stuart M. (Melvin) Kaminsky had a chair in Film Studies and wrote a large number of books: studies...
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Wordsworth, William
1770 - 1850
The English poet William Wordsworth was born in Cumberland as the son of a lawyer, but lost his parents at an early age. He...
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Diski, Jenny
1947 - 2016
The British author Jenny Diski was born in London as Jenny Simmonds. She had a traumatic childhood with a father who...
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