Sue Taylor Grafton (born 1940-04-24 ) is a contemporary American author of detective novels. Sourced Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we’re all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily ......
Sue Grafton, along with Marcia Muller and Sara Paretsky, are credited with introducing the woman hard-boiled detective. Her popular detective, Kinsey Millhone, appeared initially in 1982 in "A" Is for Alibi, the beginning of a highly successful series...
With well over ten million copies of her books in print in twenty-six languages around the world, and with titles that are hard to forget because they follow the alphabet, author Sue Grafton is one of those fortunate few wordsmiths who not only makes a...
Along with fellow writers Sara Paretsky and Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton has been credited with popularizing the mystery sub-genre of the female private eye. Although there have been female detectives almost from the beginnings of mystery fiction, in the...
Author's A-Z detective is letter-perfect It didn't take Sue Grafton long to realize she'd been a little overly optimistic, a little naive perhaps, though that's not a word often associated with Grafton or her literary alter ego, Kinsey Millhone. It was back...
With "L is for Lawless," Sue Grafton is nearing the halfway mark in her alphabetized series of Kinsey Millhone crime novels, and she admits that she is slowing down a bit. Not because she is out of ideas, she said yesterday over coffee...
In the mood for a good mystery? How about 12 of them? Organizers for the first International Mystery Writers' Festival will showcase 12 works June 12-17 in Owensboro. Some of the genre's key players, Ira Levin, Sue Grafton and Angela...
Today is Tuesday, April 24, the 114th day of 2007. There are 251 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 24, 1916, some 1,600 Irish nationalists launched the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin. (The rising was put down by...
In the following essay, Christianson maintains that Grafton's hard-boiled detective novels challenge the notion of male domination and avow female liberation.
In the following essay, Rabinowitz examines “A” Is for Alibi, its entry into the world of hard-boiled detective fiction, and its role as a feminist text.
In the following essay, Reddy examines the genre of the feminist crime novel, focusing on four major novelists—including Grafton—within the genre, and considers the genre's potential new directions.
