Saturday, June 19, 2010

The Kinsey Millhone alphabet series author, Sue Grafton, author biographies

Sue Grafton was born on 24 April 1940 Born in Louisville, Kentucky, where she and her sister were also addressed. Her parents were Vivian Harnsberger Attorney CW Grafton and Grafton. Her father wrote in his spare time, had published four secrets.

After graduating with a BA in English Literature at the University of Louisville in 1961, Sue worked in
Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, California, treasurer, secretary and medical hospital admissions clerk. Although theywriting began when she was 18 years old, she published wasnít to 1967.She began screenplays, television films and TV pilots.

Sue is Steven F. Humphries married and has three children from previous marriages. She was in the middle of a divorce in the 1980ís when writing her Kinsey Millhone books started. She says, joking: "Your calls may murderous good to be in this world. Donit have turned that ex-husband you down! Simply start a newJob done. "

Sue Grafton lives in Santa Barbara, where her protagonist Kinsey Millhone is alive, but was renamed Santa Teresa in the books. Many years ago, set another author, Ross Madonald, his protagonist, Lew Archer, in Santa Teresa.

Sue says that if she did first book signings, most were women, consistent, but now there are at least as many men, if not more. It is not gender-writer.

Sue wrote a book a year, but decided that was too much, soNow she published a book about every eighteen months. She says that when she dies, she will leave all their papers to University of Boston. She refuses to get hold of Hollywood absolutely Kinsey Millhone.

Books by Sue Grafton:
Kinsey Millhone series:
A is for Alibi (1982)
B is for Burglar (1985)
C is for Corpse (1986)
D is for Deadbeat (1987)
E for Evidence (1988)
F is for Fugitive (1989)
G is for Gumshoe (1990)
H is for homicide(1991)
I is for Innocent (1992)
J is for Judgement (1993)
K is for Killer (1994)
L is for Lawless (1995)
M is for Malice (1996)
N is for Noose (1998)
O is for Outlaw (1999)
P is for Peril (2000)
Q is for Quarry (2002)
R is for Ricochet (2004)
S is for Silence (2005)
T is for Trespass (2007)
U is for Undertow (2009)

Kinsey Millhone Omnibus:
Three Complete Novels 1: A, B and C (1990)
Three Complete Novels 2: D, E and F(2001)
Three Complete Novels 3: G, H and I (2002)
Three Complete Novels 4: J, K and L (2007)
Three Complete Novels 5: M, N and O (2008)

Stand Alone Novels:
Keziah Dane (1967)
The Lolly-Madonna War (1998)

Published anthologies:
The Best American Mystery Stories: 1998 (1998) by Otto Penzler

Subjects:
2002 Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America ()

Sue Grafton is known known for the careful and painstaking research that itnot for every book. Your whole series takes place in the 1980s, they must ensure that they do not get in front of himself (hmm. .. no phones ...). This of course means that Kinsey Millhone stays in her 30's, too.

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