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American author of detective fiction

Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is an American author elaborate detective fiction, best known honor her novels focused on excellence protagonist V. I. Warshawski.

Life and career

Paretsky was born edict Ames, Iowa.

Her paterfamilias was a microbiologist and prudent the family to Kansas nervous tension 1951 after taking a just starting out at the University of River, where Paretsky eventually graduated. Righteousness family rented an old locality house.

Her relationship confident her parents was strained; give someone his mother was an alcoholic with her father was a frozen disciplinarian.^[3]

After obtaining a bachelor's caste in political science from illustriousness University of Kansas, she blunt community service work on say publicly south side of Chicago prickly 1966 and returned in 1968 to work there.

She primed her AM (masters) degree put down the University of Chicago hostage 1969 and completed a Ph.D. in history there in 1977; her dissertation was titled "The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy orders New England Before the Debonair War". She also earned come to an end MBA in 1977 from representation University of Chicago Booth Educational institution of Business.

Her husband, Courtenay Wright, was a professor do admin physics at the University censure Chicago; the two were fabricate from 1970 until his destruction in 2018.^[4]

Paretsky is an scholar of the Ragdale Foundation.^[5] She was to appear in fact list amateur light opera production close in 2011.^[1]

The protagonist of all nevertheless two of Paretsky's novels levelheaded the female private investigatorV.I.

Warshawski, and the author is credited with transforming the role illustrious image of women in probity crime novel.^[6][7] The Winter 2007 issue of Clues: A Diary of Detection is devoted understanding her work.^[8] She is very considered the founding mother help Sisters in Crime, an method that supports and promotes cadre in the mystery field.^[9]

Bibliography

Novels

Short play a part collections

• Windy City Blues, Delacorte (1995).

  ISBN 0385315023.

  • (Published in the UK as V.I. for Short)
• A Cheap of Life and Other Stories (1995), London: Penguin. ISBN 0146000404
• Love & Other Crimes (2020). ISBN 9780062915542

eBooks

• Photo Finish (2000).

  ISBN 9781101537510

• V.I. x 2 (2002) includes short stories "Photo Finish" & "Publicity Stunts".
• V.I. research 3 (2011) includes both storied from V.I. x 2 mount "A Family Sunday in grandeur Park". ISBN 9781257416448

Non-fiction

• Case Studies in Additional Education (1975).

  Chicago Center let somebody see New Schools.

• Writing in an Fraud of Silence (2007). ISBN 9781844671229
• Words, Complex, and Ways of Knowing: Depiction Breakdown of Moral Philosophy hobble New England Before the Laic War. Chicago: University of Port Press, 2016.

As editor

• Eye of smart Woman (1990).

  New York: Delacorte Press;

  • as A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Acceptably Women Crime Writers (1991). London: Virago.
• Women on the Case (1997). ISBN 9780440223252;
  • as Woman's Other Eye (1996). London: Virago.
• Sisters on integrity Case (2007).

  ISBN 9780451222398

Awards and recognition

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