Maker and Craftsman

About the Book

Revised for the 1993 centennial celebration of the birth of Dorothy L. Sayers, this biography describes a life profuse with literary products as rich and varied as her past. Maker and Craftsman examines Sayers' enthusiasms and creativity, her miraculous gift of language, her sly sense of humor and her brilliant intellect.

Best known for the Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories that have charmed and fascinated fans for several generations, she also wrote plays for the B.B.C. and London's West End, translated Dante's Divine Comedy and still found time to speak and write forthrightly in defense of her beliefs, the arts, and women's rights.

" Dale has chosen a subject who is a woman of her place and time, and yet far exceeding both she writes with scholarship, and a vigour and expansive enthusiasm, a gale of life not unlike Dorothy's own."
-Anne Perry, British Mystery Author

About the Author

Alzina Stone Dale is a freelance author/lecturer who teaches seminars at the Newberry Library, has given lectures at conferences from Seattle to London and chaired panels at mystery conventions like Bouchercon, Malice Domestic, Magna cum Murder, and Of Dark and Stormy Nights. In addition to Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers, she has published biographies of T.S. Eliot, G.K. Chesterson, and edited Love All: The Comedies of Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Centenary Celebration, and Sayers on Holmes. Dale has written mystery guides to London, England , New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C., two of which have won Agatha Awards, and she is a contributor to The Swiftly Tilting World of Madeleine L Engle, As Her Wimsey Took Her, Permanent Things, The Riddle of Joy, and the Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery. Dale is a member of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society, Mystery Writers of America, British Crime Writers Association, and the Society of Midland Authors.