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    English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)

    Dorothy Leigh Sayers 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. Wikipedia

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    Dorothy Leigh Sayers (/ s ɛər z / SAIRZ; [n 2] 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 ...
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    Dorothy Leigh Sayers (usually styled as Dorothy L. Sayers; 1893-1957) was an English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist; she was also a student of classical and modern languages.She is perhaps best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories, set between the First and Second World Wars, which feature Lord Peter Wimsey, an English ...
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    Dorothy L. Sayers won a scholarship in the year 1912 that allowed her to a join the Somerville College in Oxford. She studied medieval literature and modern languages at the college and passed out with first class honors in the year 1915. During that time, women were not meant to be awarded with degrees. However, she fought for her rights and ...
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    Dorothy L. Sayers (born June 13, 1893, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died Dec. 17, 1957, Witham, Essex) was an English scholar and writer whose numerous mystery stories featuring the witty and charming Lord Peter Wimsey combined the attractions of scholarly erudition and cultural small talk with the puzzle of detection.. Sayers received a degree in medieval literature from the University of ...
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    Dorothy Sayers was a well-known English crime writer, playwright, poet, translator, and Christian humanist. Recognized as one of the greatest mystery writers of the 20th century, she is remembered for her series of mystery novels and short stories featuring sharp, charismatic amateur detective, 'Lord Peter Wimsey.'
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    The detective stories of well-known British writer Dorothy Leigh Sayers mostly feature the amateur investigator Lord Peter Wimsey; she also translated the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. This renowned author and Christian humanist studied classical and modern languages. Her best known mysteries, a series of short novels, set between World War I and World War II, feature an English aristocra
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    About Dorothy L Sayers. Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 -17 December 1957) 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 ...
  10. novelsuspects.com

    Certain names appear when discussing classic mystery novels from the 1920s and 1930s, and one of those names is Dorothy L. Sayers. Sayers was one of the "Queens of Crime" from the Golden Age of detective fiction: one of the leading female crime writers of the era, alongside Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, and Margery Allingham.
  11. Dorothy L. Sayers was an English crime writer, one of the most popular writers of the so-called Golden Age of Detective Fiction (1920s-1930s). She was known as one of the four Queens of Crime, alongside her fellow novelists Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, and Ngaio Marsh. Sayers' most popular character was Lord Peter Wimsey, an aristocratic ...
  12. Dorothy L. Sayers, Unpopular Opinions (1947) June 13, 1893 - December 17, 1957. Considered one of the foremost modern detective writers and perhaps best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey novels, Dorothy Leigh Sayers was also an accomplished and popular playwright, religious commentator, and scholar whose translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy ...

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