She is most known for her mysteries, a series of books and short tales set between World Wars I and II that star English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and are still popular today. Sayers, on the other hand, believed her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her greatest achievement. She wrote more than 50 books over a career that spanned six decades. Sayers was born Elizabeth Susan Stoney in Lincolnshire, England on April 21, 1887. She was the daughter of a wealthy family who owned land near Grimsby. When she was five years old, her father died when she was left an orphan with no money. To support herself, she went to work at a newspaper office while studying literature and philosophy at Cambridge University. After graduating in 1909, she moved to London where she worked as a research assistant for one of her professors while writing stories for magazines such as The Idler and The Sphere. In 1914, she met another writer by the name of Arthur George Christian (1874-1957), and they married two years later. He was a successful author himself who had already published three novels. The couple eventually had four children together though only two reached adulthood. In 1919, Sayers started publishing her own mysteries which were wildly popular. Her books made her famous and led to lectures and seminars being given on how to solve crimes like those in her novels. In 1927, Sayers and her husband divorced.