Dorothy L. Sayers
English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)
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Dorothy L. Sayers was an English writer best known for her crime novels featuring the detective Lord Peter Wimsey, though she also wrote plays, essays, and Christian theological works during her long career from the early 20th century until her death in 1957. She remains influential both as a pioneering figure in detective fiction and for her thoughtful contributions to Christian thought and literary criticism.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 13 June 1893
- Died
- 17 December 1957
- Works
- 402
Top works
- Clouds of witness
- The best horror stories
- The nine tailors
- The collected edition of detective stories
- Ur of the Chaldees
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 535
- Total plays
- 22,802
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Dorothy Leigh Sayers (/sɛərz/ SAIRZ; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.
Born in Oxford, Sayers was brought up in rural East Anglia and educated at Godolphin School in Salisbury and Somerville College, Oxford, graduating with first class honours in medieval French. She worked as an advertising copywriter between 1922 and 1929 before success as an author brought her financial independence. Her first novel, Whose Body?, was published in 1923. Between then and 1939 she wrote ten more novels featuring the upper-class amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. In 1930, in Strong Poison, she introduced a leading female character, Harriet Vane, the object of Wimsey's love. Harriet appears sporadically in future novels, resisting Lord Peter's proposals of marriage until Gaudy Night in 1935, six novels later.