Dorothy L. Sayers
Author · 52 books
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) was an English writer and literary scholar. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford, where she was among the first women to graduate in medieval literature. Her first detective novel appeared in 1923 and introduced Lord Peter Wimsey, an aristocratic amateur detective. By 1937, she had written 15 crime novels featuring Wimsey. In the later part of her life, she returned to the study of medieval literature and wrote literary criticism.