Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers
Author • Translator • Adapter13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957 · From United Kingdom- Books
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Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was an English crime writer, playwright, translator and Christian essayist, born in Oxford. One of the first women to take an Oxford degree, she worked in advertising before publishing Whose Body? in 1923, which introduced the aristocratic amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
Her Wimsey novels, including Strong Poison, The Nine Tailors and Gaudy Night, made her a leading figure of the Golden Age of detective fiction, and she was a founder member of the Detection Club.
From the mid-1930s she turned to religious drama, including the BBC radio cycle The Man Born to Be King, and in her later years she devoted herself to a verse translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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Dorothy L. Sayers is primarily celebrated for her Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels, which are considered classics of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. She also gained recognition for her translations of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
The Lord Peter Wimsey series generally follows publication order for the main novels, starting with "Whose Body?" and continuing through "Gaudy Night" and "Busman's Honeymoon." There are also short story collections that can be read at various points.
Many of Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novels have been adapted for television and radio. These adaptations often feature prominent British actors in the roles of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane.