WRITER

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 1,582,609 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Dorothy L. Sayers is the 2,437th most popular writer (down from 1,854th in 2019), the 1,797th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,462nd in 2019) and the 195th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Murder must advertise
Fiction, Private investigators, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character)
When a man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable London advertising agency, it looks like an accident. Then Lord Peter Wimsey is called in, and he soon discovers there's more to copy writing than meets the eye-- cocaine, blackmail, and some wanton women can be read between the lines.
1933
The five red herrings
Private investigators, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character), English Detective and mystery stories
1
1931
Unnatural death
Private investigators, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character), Open Library Staff Picks
1927
The Nine Tailors
Fiction, Private investigators, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character)
When his sexton finds a corpse in the wrong grave, the rector of Fenchurch St Paul asks Lord Peter Wimsey to find out who the dead man was and how he came to be there. The lore of bell-ringing and a brilliantly-evoked village in the remote fens of East Anglia are the unforgettable background to a story of an old unsolved crime and its violent unravelling twenty years later.
1934
Whose body?
Mystery, Detectives, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character)
1923
Busman's honeymoon
Fiction, Private investigators, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character)
Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry and go to spend their honeymoon at Talboys, an old farmhouse in Hertfordshire which he has bought her as a present. The honeymoon is intended as a break from their usual routine of solving crimes (him) and writing about them (her), but it turns into a murder investigation when the seller of the house is found dead at the bottom of the cellar steps with severe head injuries. - Wikipedia.
1937

Page views of Dorothy L. Sayers by language

Over the past year Dorothy L. Sayers has had the most page views in the with 262,608 views, followed by German (18,531), and Russian (10,834). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Norwegian (Nynorsk) (976.47%), Danish (176.19%), and Georgian (70.61%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dorothy L. Sayers ranks 2,437 out of 7,302. Before her are María Elena Walsh, Mary Mapes Dodge, Zhou Daguan, Eduardo Mendoza Garriga, Miguel Delibes, and Mak Dizdar. After her are Ai Qing, Ikki Kita, Johann Peter Hebel, Louise Colet, George Meredith, and Renée Vivien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Dorothy L. Sayers ranks 108. Before her are Haykanoush Danielyan, Rahul Sankrityayan, Léopold Szondi, Alois Hába, Beatrice Wood, and Harold Laski. After her are Farabundo Martí, Cedric Gibbons, Ba Maw, José Calvo Sotelo, Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, and Paul van Zeeland. Among people deceased in 1957, Dorothy L. Sayers ranks 94. Before her are Wilhelm Filchner, Umberto Saba, Paja Jovanović, Gheorghe Tătărescu, Heinrich Bär, and Albert Anastasia. After her are Claude Farrère, Paul Walden, Ramon Magsaysay, Valery Larbaud, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, and Charles Pathé.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dorothy L. Sayers ranks 1,797 out of 8,785. Before her are John Badham (1939), John Fastolf (1380), Tim Rice (1944), Robert Hichens (1882), Sarah Miles (1941), and Cynegils (575). After her are Oliver Lodge (1851), Albert F. Mummery (1855), George Meredith (1828), Renée Vivien (1877), E. Nesbit (1858), and Ernest Bevin (1881).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Dorothy L. Sayers ranks 195. Before her are Walter Bagehot (1826), William Auld (1924), Leonard Woolf (1880), Taliesin (518), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), and Aelred of Rievaulx (1110). After her are George Meredith (1828), Renée Vivien (1877), E. Nesbit (1858), William Beckford (1760), Dick Francis (1920), and Christopher Priest (1943).

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