Dorothy L. Sayers Novelist
- Gender: Female
- Citizenship: England
- Born: Jun 13, 1893
- Died: Dec 17, 1957
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages.
She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, that remain popular to this day. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work. She is also known for her plays, literary criticism and essays.
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
home
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
experience
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
truth