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Sue Grafton

Sue Grafton

American Novelist

Born: Apr 24, 1940

Died: Dec 28, 2017

Books First Focus Kinsey Nature Writing

Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them. Sue Grafton

Wonderful Men High Would Would-Be High Heels Wearing Were Heels Them

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is. Sue Grafton

Better Mind Books Kinsey Like She Leave Where Movies

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part. Sue Grafton

Book Hell Every Books Out Write Part Takes Like Lot Crank Different Want Which Formula Ingenuity Sausages

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with. Sue Grafton

Work Tired Mine Got Years Begin After Hollywood Really Apologizing

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so. Sue Grafton

Day Light Three Seen First Seven Rightly Never Wrote Were Five Six Novels Published Four Two Numbers

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course. Sue Grafton

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO. Sue Grafton

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961. Sue Grafton

College Year State Summer Attended Sophomore Freshman Freshman Year Years Western Junior Louisville Graduated Transferred Then Teachers Kentucky University

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip. Sue Grafton

Getting Older Perspective Rest Three First Older Think Faster Changed Books About Kinsey More Only Reader Sure Learns Passed Been Years Clip Getting While Us Much Twelve Her

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