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Dorothy Lee Sayers is an English writer, philologist, playwright, and translator.
Her work is divided into two stages. In the 1920s–30s she became famous for detective novels, took part in discussions about the development of the detective genre, and published detective anthologies with her own prefaces. Sayers was one of the most active members of the Detection Club Authors’ Club; in 1936, after the death of G. K. Chesterton, she became his second president, succeeding him, with Agatha Christie inheriting the post.
All of her 12 detective novels were written in the interwar decades, the golden age of the English detective. In the 1940s–50s, Sayers turned to religious drama, essay writing, and poetic translations.
In 1923, the novel “Whose Body?” began the series of detective stories about Lord Peter Wimsey investigations. He became the hero of 12 novels and dozens of stories.
Dorothy Sayers is among the founders of the English Detection Club. Together with other club members, she participated in creating collective works “The Floating Admiral,” “Double Death,” etc.
In the 1940s she announced the end of work on detective stories.
Sayers began writing religious articles and dramas, gave lectures on religious topics, and worked on translating Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Her last work “Thrones, Dominations” was completed by Jill Paton Walsh in 1998.