Sayers, Dorothy Leigh (1893–1957) Novelist, religious playwright, and apologist.
The daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she qualified for a first class honours degree in modern languages at Somerville College, Oxford, in 1915. For a number of years she worked as a copywriter in an advertising agency until the success of her detective novels, of which the last was published in 1937, gave her financial independence. She established her reputation as a religious writer with ... ...
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