Dorothy L Sayers Biography

Dorothy L Sayers biography

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NAME: Dorothy L Sayers
OCCUPATION: Scholar, Author
BIRTH DATE: June 13, 1893
DEATH DATE: December 17, 1957
EDUCATION: Oxford University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Oxford, England
PLACE OF DEATH: Witham, England
Full Name: Dorothy Leigh Sayers

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Dorothy Sayers was a writer whose later efforts focused on theological dramas and books, radio plays and scholarly translations.

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In 1915 Dorothy Sayers became one of the first women to graduate from Oxford University. Her first major work was Whose Body? (1923), in which she created the detective Lord Peter Wimsey, a witty gentleman-scholar who would be featured in later short stories. After the 1930s she focused on theological dramas and books, radio plays and scholarly translations, notably of Dante's The Divine Comedy.