Dorothy L Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator, and scholar, best known for her detective stories featuring the aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, starting with *Whose Body?* in 1923. She graduated with first-class honors in modern languages from Somerville College, Oxford, in 1915, worked in publishing and advertising, and became a leading figure in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction as one of the 'Queens of Crime' and a founder of the Detection Club. Later in life, she wrote religious plays like *The Man Born to be King*, theological essays such as *The Mind of the Maker*, and translated Dante's *Divine Comedy*.[1][2][3]