Dorothy L. Sayers
Novelist, Author
1893 – 1957
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Who was Dorothy L. Sayers?
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, that remain popular to this day. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work. She is also known for her plays, literary criticism and essays.
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- Born
- Jun 13, 1893
Oxford - Also known as
- Dorothy Sayers
- Dorothy Leigh Sayers
- Spouses
- Oswald Atherton Fleming
(1926/04/08 - 1950/06/09)
- Oswald Atherton Fleming
- Children
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Somerville College, Oxford
- Godolphin School
- Died
- Dec 17, 1957
Witham
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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