Dorothy L. Sayers (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
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In addition to the twelve detective novels that brought her fame, Dorothy L. Sayers wrote short stories, poetry, essays, and plays, and distinguished herself as a translator and scholar of medieval French and Italian literature. Although she began her career as a poet, with Basil Blackwell bringing out collections of her verse in 1916 and 1918, Sayers primarily wrote fiction from 1920 until the late 1930’s, after which she focused on radio and stage plays and a verse translation of Dante. She also edited a landmark anthology of detective fiction,...
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