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Marking the centennial of her birth, a new look at the life and work of Dorothy Sayers uses private letters and photographs to create a portrait of the author who created aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and became a noted Christian scholar.
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Remembered above all as the detective writer who created Lord Peter Wimsey, Sayers was also a scholar and one of the first women to be awarded a degree from Oxford University. Reynolds, who completed the translation of Dante's Divine Comedy that Sayers left unfinished when she died and who is chairman of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society, profiles the famous writer on the 100th anniversary of her birth. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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