Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born in Oxford. She spent most of her childhood in the Fens where her father took over the living of Bluntisham Rectory, Cambridgeshire. At 14 she was send to school where she spent an unhappy time. Later she studied at Oxford where she enjoyed herself. In 1915 she came down from University with a degree in languages and started to work for a publisher. In 1926 she married Oswald Fleming, a journalist. They managed to stay together although it was not an easy marriage. She is the creator of 'Lord Peter Wimsey', an amateur sleuth. See also Jill Paton Walsh.