Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is a modern American author of detective fiction. Read full biography of Sara Paretsky →
I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a... →
I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a... →
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I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues.
You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.
I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.
Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.
Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is a modern American author of detective fiction.