Dorothy L.Sayers: Her Life and Soul - Softcover

Written with full access to Sayers's papers and photographs, this biography is also drawn from the author's own memories of her subject. Behind Sayers's public persona as creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, it reveals a joyful, lovable woman, and gives an account of the life of one of the greatest of all the golden age detective writers.

An Italian scholar and translator, Barbara Reynolds completed the translation of Dante's Divine Comedy which Dorothy L. Sayers left unfinished when she died. Dr Reynolds has told the story of this collaboration in The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers' Encounter with Dante. She has also translated Dante's La Vita Nuova and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and was the general editor of The Cambridge Italian Dictionary. More recently, Dr Reynolds founded the journal Seven, to which she has contributed articles on Dorothy L. Sayers. She is the President of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society, and has frequently lectured at the society's conferences. She is currently working on an edition of the Sayers letters, of which the first three volumes have now appeared.