Sue Grafton

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Sue Taylor Grafton (born April 24, 1940 in Louisville , Kentucky , † December 28, 2017 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an American crime novelist .

Life

Sue Grafton was the daughter of lawyer and crime writer CW Grafton . She graduated from the University of Louisville with a degree in English Literature and wrote television scripts while working in a hospital. The first of two early novels by Grafton appeared in 1967, but it was not until 1982 that the crime series for which it became famous began.

Since then, her private investigator Kinsey Millhone has solved her cases in alphabetical order from A is for Alibi to the final case, Y is for Yesterday . In the translations into German, the alphabet titles were not used consistently and only as subtitles. According to Grafton's daughter Jamie Clark, the Z case will no longer exist because her mother “would not have allowed a ghostwriter to write on her behalf. [...] For us, your relatives, the alphabet now ends with Y. "

Millhone, divorced twice and briefly a police officer, is a private detective in the - fictional - small town of Santa Teresa in California. Grafton used the name Santa Teresa as a tribute to crime writer Ross MacDonald , who referred to the city of Santa Barbara in his novels.

Grafton was the President of the Mystery Writers of America and lived in Santa Barbara, California. She was married twice, had three children and several grandchildren. Sue Grafton died of complications from cancer in late December 2017 at the age of 77.

Awards

Works

Kinsey-Millhone series

  • Nothing to lose. A Is for Alibi , 1982
  • In all silence. B for Bruch (B Is for Burglar, 1985)
  • Abyssal. C for Callahan ( C Is for Corpse , 1986)
  • Restless. D is for Deadbeat (1987)
  • Small gifts. E for self-interest ( E Is for Evidence , 1988)
  • She knew him briefly. F is for Fugitive (1989)
  • High commitment. G is for Gumshoe (1990)
  • Dark business. H is for Homicide , 1991
  • Urgent suspicion. I is for Innocent , 1992
  • Still Waters, J for Hunting ( J Is for Judgment , 1993)
  • Woman in the Night, K for Killer ( K Is for Killer , 1994)
  • Last honor. L is for Lawless , 1995
  • Gold mine. M for Malice (1997)
  • Head in the noose. N is for Noose (1998)
  • Dangerous letters. O is for Outlaw (1999)
  • Deadly greed. P for panic ( P Is for Peril , 2001)
  • Dead silence. Q as in receipt ( Q Is for Quarry , 2002)
  • Played out. R is for ricochet (2004)
  • S Is for Silence, June 12, 2005
  • T is for Trespass, December 4, 2007
  • U is for Undertow, December 1, 2009
  • V is for Vengeance, 2011
  • W is for Wasted, 2013
  • X, 2015
  • Y is for Yesterday, 2017

Stories

  • Detective, early 30s, seeks assignments ( Kinsey and Me , 1991)

literature

  • Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Carol McGinnis Kay: “G” is for Grafton. The world of Kinsey Millhone . Holt, New York 2000, ISBN 0-8050-6507-5 .
  • Scott Christianson: Talkin 'trash and kickin' butt: Sue Grafton's hard-boiled feminism. In: Glenwood Irons (Ed.): Feminism in women's detective fiction . University of Toronto Press 1995, ISBN 0802005195 , pp. 127-147.
  • Priscilla L. Walton: “E” is for gendering readings: Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone. In: Kathleen Gregory Klein (Ed.): Women times three. Writers, detectives, readers . Bowling Green State University Popular Press 1995, ISBN 0879726814 , pp. 101-116

Web links

Commons : Sue Grafton  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcus Green: Louisville mystery writer Sue Grafton dies of cancer at age 77 . WDRB, December 29, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 (English).
  2. ^ Neil Genzlinger: Sue Grafton, Whose Detective Novels Spanned the Alphabet, Dies at 77 . New York Times , December 29, 2017, accessed December 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Grafton, Sue
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grafton, Sue Taylor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American crime novelist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Louisville , Kentucky , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2017
Place of death Santa Barbara , California