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Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) A Selective Bibliography
Detective novels Whose Body? 1923. Clouds of Witness. [The Dawson Pedigree] 1926. Unnatural Death. 1927. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. 1928. The Documents in the Case. [co-written] 1930. Strong Poison. 1930. Five Red Herrings. [Suspicious Characters] 1931. Have His Carcase. 1932. Murder Must Advertise. 1933. The Nine Tailors. 1934. Gaudy Night. 1935. Busman’s Honeymoon. 1937.
Collections of detective short stories Lord Peter Views the Body. 1928. Hangman’s Holiday. 1933. In the Teeth of Evidence. 1940.
Plays He That Should Come. 1937. The Zeal of Thy House. 1937. (for the Canterbury Festival) The Devil to Pay. 1939. (for the Canterbury Festival) The Man Born to Be King. 1943. (series of 12 radio plays on life of Christ, 1941-42) The Just Vengeance. 1946. (for the Litchfield Festival) Four Sacred Plays. 1948. The Emperor Constantine. 1951. (for the Colchester Festival)
Essays & other writings The Mind of the Maker. 1941. Unpopular Opinions. 1946. Creed or Chaos? And Other Essays in Popular Theology. 1947. Introductory Papers on Dante. 1954. Further Papers on Dante. 1957. The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement; and Other Posthumous Essays on Literature, Religion and Language. 1963.
Translations & related writings Tristan in Brittany, being the Fragments of the Romance of Tristan Written in the XII Century by Thomas the Anglo-Norman. 1929. The Song of Roland. 1957. Dante Divina Commedia: I. Hell (1949), II. Purgatory (1955), III. Paradise (1962) [completed by Barbara Reynolds]
Edited works Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror. I. 1928 / II. 1931 / III. 1934. [title in U.S.: Omnibus of Crime] Tales of Detection. 1936.
Correspondence The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1899-1936, The Making of a Detective Novelist / ed. Barabara Reynolds. St. Martin’s Press, 1996. The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1937-1943, From Novelist to Playwright / ed. Barabara Reynolds. St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Biographies & critical writings about Sayers Margaret Hannay. “Dorothy Sayers” in Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Rev. ed. (1998) Catherine Kenney. “Sayers, Dorothy Leigh” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) Caroline Reitz. “Dorothy L. Sayers” in Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (2006) William D. Reynolds. “Sayers, Dorothy L.” in Reference Guide to English Literature. 2nd ed. (1991)
Contemporary Authors. NRS 60 (1998). Dictionary of Literary Biography 10 (1982), 36 (1985), 77 (1989), 100 (1990) Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. 2 (1979), 15 (1985)
Joe Christopher [et al.] “A Sayers Bibliography” in Unicorn 1-3 (1969-1977) Colleen Gilbert. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Hamden, CT: Shoe String, 1978. Robert Harmon & Margaret Burger. An Annotated Guide to the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. New York: Garland, 1977. Ruth Youngberg. Dorothy L. Sayers: A Reference Guide. G. K. Hall, 1982.
James Barbazon. Dorothy L. Sayers: the Life of a Courageous Woman. New York: Scribners, 1981. Janice Brown. The Seven Deadly Sins in the Work of Dorothy L. Sayers. Kent State University Press, 1989. Mitzi Brunsdale. Dorothy L. Sayers: Solving the Mystery of Wickedness. Berg, 1991. James B. Burleson. A Study of the Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Dissertation (Ph.D.).—University of Texas, 1969. David Coombes. Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life. Lion Books, 1992. Alzina Stone Dale (ed.) Dorothy L. Sayers: The Centenary Celebration. New York: Walker, 1993. Alzina Stone Dale. Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1978. Mary A. Donahoe. The Sacramental Aesthetic in the Plays of Dorothy L. Sayers. Dissertation (Ph.D.).—University of Oregon, 1992. Crystal Downing. Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Mary Brian Durkin, O.P. Dorothy L. Sayers. Boston: Twayne, 1980. Marion Fairman. The Neo-Medieval Plays of Dorothy L. Sayers. Dissertation (Ph.D.).— University of Pittsburgh, 1961. Dawson Gaillard. Dorothy L. Sayers. New York: Ungar, 1981. Trevor H. Hall. Dorothy L. Sayers: Nine Literary Studies. London: Duckworth, 1980. Margaret Hannay (ed.) As Her Whimsey Took Her: Critical Essays on the Work of Dorothy L. Sayers. Kent State University Press, 1979. Janet Hitchman. Such a Strange Lady: An Introduction to Dorothy L. Sayers (1893- 1957). New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Ralph E. Hone. Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography. Kent State University Press, 1979. Catherine Kenney. The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers. Kent State University Press, 1990. Gaylord Larsen. Dorothy and Agatha. Dutton, 1990. Terrance Lewis. Dorothy L. Sayers’ Wimsey and Interwar British Society. Mellen, 1994. Robert Kuhn McGregor & Ethan Lewis. Conundrums for the Long Weekend: England, Dorothy L. Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey. KentsState University Press, 2000. Barbara Reynolds. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. St. Martin’s, 1993. Barbara Reynolds. The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers’ Encounter with Dante. Kent State University Press, 1989. C. W. Scott-Giles. The Wimsey Family: A Fragmentary History Compiled from Correspondence with Dorothy L. Sayers. New York: Harper & Row, 1977. Laura K. Simmons. Creed Without Chaos: Exploring Theology in the Writings of Dorothy L. Sayers. Baker, 2005. Sara Lee Soloway. Dorothy Sayers: Novelist. Dissertation (Ph.D.).—University of Kentucky, 1971. Nancy Tischler. Dorothy L. Sayers: A Pilgrim Soul. Atlanta, GA: Know, 1980.
Periodicals Bulletin of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society. 1- (1976?) Sayers Review. 1- (1976)
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