Dorothy L Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was an English writer best known for her crime novels, poems and short stories. She grew up in a small village and attended boarding school before receiving a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford. Sayers graduated in 1915 and published her first collection of poetry OP. I in 1916. Years later, she began working on the crime story Whose Body? , which would become her most celebrated work. It features the introduction of amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey,...See more
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was an English writer best known for her crime novels, poems and short stories. She grew up in a small village and attended boarding school before receiving a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford. Sayers graduated in 1915 and published her first collection of poetry OP. I in 1916. Years later, she began working on the crime story Whose Body? , which would become her most celebrated work. It features the introduction of amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, who appears in more than ten of her novels. See less