Diane Scholl is professor emerita of English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where she taught American and modern British literature, poetry, women’s literature, and theology in literature. She has published poems in the Christian Century, Ruminate, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review, among other places. She has also published essays on Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Henry James, and Alice Walker. When Scholl is not writing or teaching, she enjoys reading mysteries, a writer’s food.
In the first year of the COVID pandemic, my lockdown reading included that old chestnut, Dorothy Sayers’s The Nine Tailors. An inveterate mystery reader, I craved the familiarity and comfort of a well-worn paperback, and I welcomed the wintry setting of the novel’s opening scene. Maybe you remember: Lord Peter Wimsey and his loyal butler, […]
