Sayers
Sayers is a surname, most notably associated with Dorothy L.
Sayers (1893–1957), the English crime writer who created the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
Her novels are considered classics of the golden age of detective fiction.
The name also appears in other contexts: Gale Sayers was a legendary Chicago Bears running back.
Classic feminine given name
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- Golden AgeLegendary period of perfection
- OxfordHistoric English university town
- translatorOne who renders between languages
Dante · essayist · playwright · theologian
Those who declare publicly
- oratorsEloquent public speakers
- pronouncersThose who articulate sounds
- storytellersPeople who narrate tales
- narratorsThose who relate tales
reciters · announcers · spokespeople · preachers · raconteurs
Dorothy
Classic feminine given name
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- Golden AgeLegendary period of perfection
- OxfordHistoric English university town
translator · Dante · essayist · playwright · theologian
proclaimers
Those who declare publicly
- oratorsEloquent public speakers
- pronouncersThose who articulate sounds
- storytellersPeople who narrate tales
narrators · reciters · announcers · spokespeople · preachers · raconteurs
genealogy
Study of family descent
lineage · patronymic · kinship · descent · pedigree · relatives · relations · forebears · clan · bloodline
SayersDashiell Hammett
Raymond Chandler · hardboiled fiction · noir · pulp fiction · noir fiction
SayersBertrand Russell
H.G. Wells · secular humanists · Philip Pullman · George Bernard Shaw · A.J. Ayer