num_pages: 421
description: A collection of letters written by the great mystery novelist to friends and family provides revealing glimpses of Sayers's childhood, undergraduate career at Oxford, secret love affair and illegitimate child, mystery writing, and more.
language: English
title: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
titlecomplete: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
genres: Autobiography, Mystery, Biography Memoir, Writing, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 130
series: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Critical/Biographical, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Nonfiction
publisher: St. Martin's Press