Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky Biography

Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is a modern American author of detective fiction.

Life and career

Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa and raised in Kansas, graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree in political science. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in 1968 to work there. She ultimately completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago; her dissertation was entitled "The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War." She also earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Married to a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, she has lived in Chicago since 1968. She is an alumna of the Ragdale Foundation.

She was to appear in an amateur light opera production in 2011.

The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. Warshawski's eclectic personality defies easy categorization. She drinks Johnnie Walker Black Label, breaks into offices looking for clues, and can hold her own in a street fight. But she also pays attention to her clothes, sings opera along with the radio, and enjoys her sex life.

Paretsky is credited with transforming the role and image of women in the crime novel. The Winter 2007 issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection is devoted to her work. She also is considered the founding mother of Sisters in Crime, an organization that supports and promotes women in the mystery field.

Paretsky was named 2011 Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. She is the winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers' Association and the CWA Gold Dagger for Blacklist.

Bibliography

Novels

Indemnity Only (1982)
Deadlock (1984)
Killing Orders (1985)
Bitter Medicine (1987)
Blood Shot (1988) (Published in the UK as Toxic Shock)
Burn Marks (1990)
Guardian Angel (1992)
Tunnel Vision (1994)
Ghost Country (1998) " non-Warshawski novel; ISBN 978-0-385-33336-8
Hard Time (1999) ISBN 0-385-31363-2
Total Recall (2001) ISBN 0-385-31366-7
Blacklist (2003) ISBN 0-399-15085-4
Fire Sale (2005) ISBN 978-0-7394-5594-4
Bleeding Kansas (2008) " non-Warshawski novel; ISBN 978-0-399-15405-8
Hardball (2009)
Body Work (2010)
Breakdown (2012)

Short story collections

Windy City Blues (1995)
A Taste of Life and Other Stories. London, Penguin, 1995 .

eBooks

Photo Finish (2000) ISBN 978-1-101-53751-0
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 Family Sunday in the Park' ISBN 9781257416448

Non-fiction

Case Studies in Alternative Education. Chicago Center for New Schools, 1975 .
Writing in an Age of Silence (2007) ISBN 978-1-84467-122-9

As editor

Eye of a Woman (short stories). New York, Delacorte Press, 1990 ; as A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers, London, Virago, 1991
Women on the Case (1997) ISBN 978-0-440-22325-2; as Woman's Other Eye, London, Virago, 1996
Sisters on the Case (2007) ISBN 978-0-451-22239-8

Awards and recognition

1986 Anthony award nomination for Best novel, Killing Orders
1989 Anthony award nomination for Best novel, Blood Shot
1992 Anthony award winner of Best short story collection award, A Woman's Eye
2011 Anthony award Lifetime Achievement award winner

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