2014-06-13
Friday's Poem: "Night" by Louise Bogan from The Blue Estuaries. Friday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of British mystery writer Dorothy L. (for Leigh) Sayers, born in Oxford in 1893. She was one of the first women to graduate from Oxford University, which she did in 1915, with a degree in medieval literature. Her first two books were volumes of poetry, published in 1916 and 1919; she published her first mystery novel, Whose Body?, in 1923, and it featured Lord Peter Wimsey, a witty aristocrat who solved mysteries as a hobby. Lord Peter is featured in 11 novels and two collections of short stories...