Dorothy L. Sayers: The Centenary Celebration - Softcover

Dale, Alzina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595340776 ISBN 13: 9780595340774

Publisher: iUniverse, 2005

Synopsis

1993 marked the 100th birthday of Dorothy L. Sayers and in her honor Dale gathered a baker's dozen of the finest and most popular mystery writers from the United States and United Kingdom who discuss the way Sayers taught them their trade. The collection was nominated for Malice Domestic's non-fiction Agatha Award.

About this title

About the Author:

Alzina Stone Dale is a freelance author/lecturer who has published biographies of Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K.Chesterton, and T.S.Eliot and edited Love All: The Comedies of Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy L.Sayers, the Centenary Celebration, and Sayers on Holmes. Dale had also written mystery travel guides to London, England, New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C., two of which have won Malice Domestic?s Agatha Awards. A contributor to As her Wimsey Took Her, and The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery, Dale is a member of the Sayers Society, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, the Authors Guild, and the Society of Midland Authors.

From Publishers Weekly:

Fourteen essays by a virtual British and American Who's Who in the mystery field bear witness to English doyenne Sayers's influence on the genre even after her death in 1957. Academics Carolyn G. Heilbrun (aka Amanda Cross) and Sharyn McCrumb (who also writes mysteries) are among the notables united here in praise of this remarkable woman's career. H.R.F. Keating and Ian Stuart object to what they see as Sayers's wordy, affected style and inability to create a realistic milieu, but most of the contributors agree that she earned a singular status in crime literature. British author Michael Gilbert remembers her as the friend who initiated him into the prestigious Detective Club, which she helped to found. Others portray her as a pioneering feminist fighting male dominance at Oxford; the innovative author of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories, first published in 1920 and still popular; a playwright on religious themes; and translator of Dante's Inferno . Dale, who chronicled Sayers's life in Maker and Craftsman , provides a biographical sketch and bibliography, as well as an essay on the final, unfinished Wimsey mystery.
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About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0595340776
• ISBN 13: 9780595340774
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182