Encyclopedia:
- Sayers, Dorothy L. (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
Calendar of Literary Facts:
- Dorothy L. Sayers is born
- Barbara Reynolds completes and publishes the third volume of Dorothy L. Sayers's translation of Dante's Divina Commedia, titled Paradise
- Dorothy L. Sayers dies
- Dorothy L. Sayers publishes Purgatory, the second volume in her translation of Dante's Divina Commedia
- Dorothy L. Sayers publishes Hell, the first volume of her translation of Dante's Divina Commedia
- Dorothy L. Sayers publishes her first detective novel, Whose Body?, a work which introduces the detective Lord Peter Wimsey
