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Dorothy L. Sayers

1893 - 1957

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Dorothy Leigh Sayers ( SAIRZ; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic. Born in Oxford, Sayers was brought up in rural East Anglia and educated at Godolphin School in Salisbury and Somerville College, Oxford, graduating with first class honours in medieval French. She worked as an advertising copywriter between 1922 and 1929 before success as an author brought her financial independence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothy L. Sayers has received more than 1,614,685 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Dorothy L. Sayers is the 1,859th most popular writer (down from 1,619th in 2019), the 1,467th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,269th in 2019) and the 161st most popular British Writer.

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  • 55.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dorothy L. Sayers ranks 1,859 out of 5,755. Before her are Juan Carlos Onetti, Étienne Dolet, Tristan Corbière, Khurshidbanu Natavan, George MacDonald, and Tarjei Vesaas. After her are Jean François Paul de Gondi, Arseny Tarkovsky, Marquis de Custine, Bob Woodward, Hermann Bahr, and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Dorothy L. Sayers ranks 82. Before her are Bill Tilden, William Dieterle, Dean Acheson, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, Merian C. Cooper, and Henry Murray. After her are Bai Chongxi, Clas Thunberg, Alexander Korda, Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, Nestor Lakoba, and Armand Călinescu. Among people deceased in 1957, Dorothy L. Sayers ranks 75. Before her are Malcolm Lowry, Carlos Castillo Armas, Ernst Gräfenberg, Prince Franz of Bavaria, Heinrich Bär, and Josef Hofmann. After her are Washington Luís, Theodor Körner, Irving Baxter, Zhou Xuan, Rudolf Schmidt, and Josef Lada.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dorothy L. Sayers ranks 1,467 out of 7,765. Before her are Edward Low (1690), George MacDonald (1824), Anthony Minghella (1954), Jeffrey Archer (1940), Marina Berti (1924), and Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763). After her are Francesca Annis (1945), John Ball (1338), Katharine, Duchess of Kent (1933), John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404), Adrian Newey (1958), and Paul Bettany (1971).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Dorothy L. Sayers ranks 161. Before her are Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), Brian Aldiss (1925), Christopher Isherwood (1904), Lucinda Riley (1965), Anthony Trollope (1815), and George MacDonald (1824). After her are Sister Nivedita (1867), Vita Sackville-West (1892), Karen Armstrong (1944), William Auld (1924), Eric Knight (1897), and Walter Bagehot (1826).

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