Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)
Autor de Los Secretos de Oxford
Sobre El Autor
Dorothy Sayers's impressive reputation as a contemporary master of the classic detective story is eclipsed only by Agatha Christie's. Sayers was born in Oxford and attended Somerville College, where she received a B.A. in 1915 and an M.A. in 1920. During that period, Sayers worked as an instructor mostrar más of modern languages at Hull High School for Girls in Yorkshire and as a reader for a publisher in Oxford. Her early literary work was in poetry; she published several volumes and served as an editor for the journal Oxford Poetry from 1917 to 1919. Sayers also worked as a copywriter for a major advertising firm in London. She was president of the Modern Language Association from 1939 to 1945 and of the Detection Club in the 1950s. Around 1920 Sayers developed the idea for her detective hero Lord Peter Wimsey, and she soon published her first mystery, Whose Body? (1923), in which Lord Peter is introduced. For the next dozen or so years, Sayers wrote prolifically about Wimsey, creating in the process what many critics of the genre consider to be the finest detective novels in the English language. Perhaps her most famous Wimsey mystery was The Nine Tailors (1934). Although Sayers essentially followed the classic form in her detective fiction---a formula in which the plot assumes a greater importance than do the characters---Sayers maintained that a detective hero's greatness depended on how effectively the character was portrayed. All but one of Sayers's mysteries feature Lord Peter Wimsey. By the late 1930s, Sayers had apparently tired of writing detective fiction. She stated in 1947 that she would write no more mysteries, that she wrote detective fiction only when she was young and in need of money. Thus saying, Sayers turned her attention to her early loves, medieval and religious literature, spending her remaining years lecturing on and translating Dante (see Vol. 2). (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Dorothy L. Sayers
Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine (2004) 377 copias
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death (1923) 191 copias
On the Case with Lord Peter Wimsey: Three Complete Novels/Strong Poison/Have His Carcase/Unnatural Death (1991) 123 copias
Three Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels: Whose Body?, Murder Must Advertise, Gaudy Night (1992) 104 copias
The Dorothy L. Sayers Crime Collection: Murder Must Advertise, the Nine Tailors, Gaudy Night, Have His Carcass & Strong… (1997) 53 copias
The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers: Selections from Her Novels, Plays, Letters, and Essays (The Gospel in Great Writers) (2018) 52 copias
Lord Peter and Harriet: Part II (Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon, Lost Classics Omnibus) (1937) 37 copias
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Two: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Strong Poison, The Five Red… (2018) 32 copias
Omnibus: Containing Whose body? The unpleasantness at the Bellona club, Suspicious characters (1923) 31 copias
Four Classic Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries: Strong Poison/Have His Carcase/Gaudy Night/Busman's Honeymoon (1990) 27 copias
The Lord Peter Wimsey Short Story Collection: Lord Peter Views the Body / Hangman's Holiday / In the Teeth of the… (2018) 25 copias
Five Red Herrings: Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey (BBC Radio Collection) (1978) 24 copias
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 1: Three classic full-cast dramatisations (2017) 23 copias
Taking Detective Stories Seriously: The Collected Crime Reviews of Dorothy L. Sayers (2017) 18 copias
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Three: Murder Must Advertise, The Nine Tailors, Gaudy Night, and Busman's… (2018) 17 copias
The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection: Whose Body?, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, The Five Red Herrings, Nine… (1990) 16 copias
Have His Carcase: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Ian Carmichael & Maria Aitken (BBC Radio Collection) (1981) 15 copias
Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates: Selected Short Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) (2018) 15 copias
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection, Volume 3: Four BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) 14 copias
Striding Folly [short story] 14 copias
Mystery (The Case of the Perfect Maid, The Third-Floor Flat, The Image in the Mirror, The Red-Headed League) (1989) 13 copias
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 2: Four BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) 12 copias
Three Great Lord Peter Novels: "Strong Poison", "Murder Must Advertise" and "Nine Tailors" (1978) 10 copias
The Christ of the Creeds: And Other Broadcast Messages to the British People During World War II (2008) 8 copias
The mysterious English 8 copias
God, Hitler and Lord Peter Wimsey: Selected Essays, Speeches and Articles by Dorothy L. Sayers (2019) 6 copias
Early Works of Dorothy Sayers 6 copias
The Sayers holiday book 5 copias
The other six deadly sins: An address given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October… (1943) 4 copias
Mitt namn är Wimsey 4 copias
Beyond Schooling: Building Communities Where Learning Really Matters — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Kriminalhistorier 4 copias
Peter Wimsey historier 4 copias
Clouds of Witness / Murder Must Advertise / Strong Poison / Unnatural Death / Busman's Honeymoon (1982) 3 copias
Have his carcase 3 copias
The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection 3: Murder Must Advertise / The Nine Tailors / Busman's Honeymoon (2004) 3 copias
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume VI — Editor — 3 copias
OBRAS ESCOGIDAS. EL MISTERIO DE RIDDLESDALE LODGE. LORD PETER DESCUBRE EL DELITO. CINTO PISTAS FALSAS. EL CASO DEL… (1964) 2 copias
Peter Wimsey Omnibus - Whose Body? Clouds of Witness, Murder Must Advertise, Busman's Honeymoon (Unabridged) (2012) 2 copias
Les Origines du Roman Policier: A Wartime Wireless Talk to the French. The Original French Text with an English… (2003) 2 copias
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume IV — Editor — 2 copias
Lord Peter Wimsey 2 copias
Dorothy L. Sayers Set (6 novels) 1 copia
Gaudy Nights 1 copia
A "caixa" 1 copia
OBRA SELECTA 1 copia
The Story of Noah's Ark 1 copia
strong poison 1 copia
The Omnibus of Crime 1 copia
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking (a collection of quotable quotes) (2010) 1 copia
MORTE DUPLA 1 copia
The Story of Adam and Christ 1 copia
Let's Choose Executors 1 copia
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume V — Editor — 1 copia
Two Lord Peter Wimsey Stories 1 copia
Dorothy L Sayers Mysteries 1 copia
Sayers, Dorothy L 1 copia
Třikrát lord Petr 1 copia
O Mistério de Battersea 1 copia
Ein unheimlicher Kunde 1 copia
Das Spiegelbild 1 copia
The Dorothy L. Sayers Omnibus: The Five Red herrings, Strong Poison, Lord Peter Views the Body (1933) 1 copia
And Telling You a Story 1 copia
Dorothy Sayers Box Set (Four Mystery Classics Featuring the Inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey, Box Set: Whose Body?; Strong… (1968) 1 copia
anything that she writes 1 copia
Detective omnibus 1 copia
The Art of the Actor 1 copia
The House Of The Soul Lay 1 copia
Dante papers trilogy. 1 copia
The Emperor Constantine 1 copia
The Lord Peter Wimsey MEGAPACK® 1 copia
Wimsey papers : being war-time letters and documents of the Wimsey family [anthology] [ebook] 1 copia
The second omnibus of crime 1 copia
Dorothy L. Sayers 4 Book Set - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Strong Poison - Murder Must Advertise -… (1963) 1 copia
The 2nd Omnibus of Crime 1 copia
Busman's holiday 1 copia
THE LORD PETER WIMSEY COLLECTION 1 copia
Her Oxford 1 copia
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Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Contribuidor — 67 copias
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Contribuidor — 52 copias
Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2023) — Contribuidor — 47 copias
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries: Harriet Vane Collection (Strong Poison / Have His Carcase / Gaudy Night) (2013) — Original book — 45 copias
The Edge of the Chair: A Superlative Collection, Some Fact, Some Fiction, All Suspense (1967) — Contribuidor — 42 copias
Grande Dames of Detection: Two Centuries of Sleuthing Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Contribuidor — 32 copias
Sisters of Sorcery: Two Centuries of Witchcraft Stories by the Gentle Sex (1976) — Contribuidor — 30 copias
Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection (2022) — Contribuidor — 28 copias
Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Contribuidor — 27 copias
The World's Greatest Detective Stories: Intriguing Mysteries from the Greatest Writers of Crime Fiction (1978) — Contribuidor — 26 copias
Detective Stories (The Treasure Hunt / The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim / The Necklace of Pearls) (1996) — Contribuidor — 19 copias
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives ( BOX Set) (1985) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Sleuths: Twenty-Three Great Detectives of Fiction and Their Best Stories (1931) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Great Mystery Books, 10 Volumes (Journey into Fear, The 39 Steps, And Then There Were None, Maltese Falcon, The Nine… (1967) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Detektivhistorier fra Sherlock Holmes til Hercule Poirot — Contribuidor — 3 copias
The Fourth Mystery Bedside Book — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Great Mystery Series: Eight of the Best Mysteries by the Top Women Writers [audiobook] (2000) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Crime and Detection (Second Series) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Tchnienie Grozy — Contribuidor — 1 copia
No Flowers by Request — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The great detectives — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Verdens beste kriminalhistorier — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Best Crime Stories 2 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Stories for girls — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Mystery and Suspense — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Ellery Queen's 1966 Anthology — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Sayers, Dorothy Leigh
- Otros nombres
- Fleming, Dorothy Leigh
Flemming, Dorothy Leigh Sayers - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1893-06-13
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1957-12-17
- Lugar de sepultura
- St. Anne's Church, London, England, UK
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Witham, England, UK
- Causa de fallecimiento
- coronary thrombosis
- Lugares de residencia
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Witham, England, UK - Educación
- Oxford University (MA|1920|Somerville College)
Godolphin School, Salisbury - Ocupaciones
- copywriter
playwright
translator
mystery writer
essayist
The Detection Club, president - Relaciones
- Reynolds, Barbara (goddaughter)
- Organizaciones
- Detection Club
- Premios y honores
- Archie Goodwin Award (2007)
Blue Plaque - Biografía breve
- Although best known as a writer of Golden Age British mystery novels featuring amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L. Sayers also was a student of classical and modern languages, a playwright, and an essayist. Her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy is still considered a classic.
Miembros
Debates
156. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers en Backlisted Book Club (marzo 2022)
name suggestion: Dorothy Sayers en Legacy Libraries (marzo 2021)
Lord Peter- September - Hangman's Holiday en 2020 Category Challenge (septiembre 2020)
Talking Piffle Message Board en Talking Piffle (julio 2019)
NOVEMBER READ - SPOILERS - The Nine Tailors en The Green Dragon (Febrero 2014)
NOVEMBER READ - NO SPOILERS - The Nine Tailors en The Green Dragon (noviembre 2013)
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