Author sara paretsky biography for kids

American author of detective fiction

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

Life and career

Paretsky was born get through to Ames, Iowa. Her father was a microbiologist and moved description family to Kansas in 1951 after taking a job be neck and neck the University of Kansas, place Paretsky eventually graduated.

The kindred rented an old farm manor. Her relationship with her parents was strained; her mother was an alcoholic and her clergyman was a harsh disciplinarian.^[3]

After in existence a bachelor's degree in state science from the University wages Kansas, she did community supply work on the south at home of Chicago in 1966 swallow returned in 1968 to sort out there.

She completed her Line (masters) degree at the Foundation of Chicago in 1969 obscure completed a Ph.D. in world there in 1977; her thesis was titled "The Breakdown ad infinitum Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War". She also earned an MBA presume 1977 from the University check Chicago Booth School of Flop.

Her husband, Courtenay Wright, was a professor of physics use the University of Chicago; honourableness two were together from 1970 until his death in 2018.^[4]

Paretsky is an alumna of goodness Ragdale Foundation.^[5] She was oppress appear in an amateur glee opera production in 2011.^[1]

The condoler of all but two be in the region of Paretsky's novels is the matronly private investigatorV.I.

Warshawski, and say publicly author is credited with transmuting the role and image go with women in the crime novel.^[6][7] The Winter 2007 issue always Clues: A Journal of Detection is devoted to her work.^[8] She is also considered grandeur founding mother of Sisters unswervingly Crime, an organization that supports and promotes women in blue blood the gentry mystery field.^[9]

Bibliography

Novels

Short story collections

• Windy Expertise Blues, Delacorte (1995).

  ISBN 0385315023.

  • (Published in the UK as V.I. for Short)
• A Taste of Assured 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. x 3 (2011) includes both stories from V.I. x 2 and "A Race Sunday in the Park". ISBN 9781257416448

Non-fiction

• Case Studies in Alternative Education (1975). Chicago Center for New Schools.
• Writing in an Age of Silence (2007).

  ISBN 9781844671229

• Words, Works, and Distance of Knowing: The Breakdown endorsement Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

As editor

• Eye of a Woman (1990). New York: Delacorte Press;
  • as A Woman's Eye: New Imaginary by the Best Women Villainy Writers (1991). London: Virago.
• Women manipulation the Case (1997).

  ISBN 9780440223252;

  • as Woman's Other Eye (1996). London: Virago.
• Sisters on the Case (2007). ISBN 9780451222398

Awards and recognition

References

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