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Sara Paretsky

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox writer Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the protagonist V. I. Warshawski.

Life and careerEdit

Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa. Her father was a microbiologist and moved the family to Kansas in 1951 after taking a job at the University of Kansas, where Paretsky eventually graduated. The family rented an old farm house. Her relationship with her parents was strained; her mother was an alcoholic and her father was a harsh disciplinarian.<ref>Sarah Crown, Sara Paretsky interview: ‘I start each VI Warshawski book convinced I can’t do it’, The Guardian, 7 August 2015.</ref>

After obtaining a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Kansas, she did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in 1968 to work there. She completed her AM (masters) degree at the University of Chicago in 1969 and completed a Ph.D. in history there in 1977; her dissertation was titled "The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War". She also earned an MBA in 1977 from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Her husband, Courtenay Wright, was a professor of physics at the University of Chicago; the two were together from 1970 until his death in 2018.<ref>Maureen O'Donnell, "Courtenay Wright, University of Chicago physicist, witness to D-Day, dead at 95", Chicago Sun Times, Nov 26, 2018</ref>

Paretsky is an alumna of the Ragdale Foundation.<ref name="Ragdale">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was to appear in an amateur light opera production in 2011.<ref name=StateNewsService/>

The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is the female private investigator V.I. Warshawski, and the author is credited with transforming the role and image of women in the crime novel.<ref name=Martin>Martin, Nora (1996). ""In the business of believing women's stories": Feminism through detective fiction (Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton)" (M.A. thesis) Wilfrid Laurier University</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The Winter 2007 issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection is devoted to her work.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She is also considered the founding mother of Sisters in Crime, an organization that supports and promotes women in the mystery field.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

BibliographyEdit

NovelsEdit

Short story collectionsEdit

  • Windy City Blues, Delacorte (1995). Template:ISBN.
    • (Published in the UK as V.I. for Short)
  • A Taste of Life and Other Stories (1995), London: Penguin. Template:ISBN
  • Love & Other Crimes (2020). ISBN 9780062915542

eBooksEdit

  • Photo Finish (2000). Template:ISBN
  • 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". Template:ISBN

Non-fictionEdit

  • Case Studies in Alternative Education (1975). Chicago Center for New Schools.
  • Writing in an Age of Silence (2007). Template:ISBN
  • Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing: The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

As editorEdit

  • Eye of a Woman (1990). New York: Delacorte Press;
    • as A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (1991). London: Virago.
  • Women on the Case (1997). Template:ISBN;
    • as Woman's Other Eye (1996). London: Virago.
  • Sisters on the Case (2007). Template:ISBN

Awards and recognitionEdit

  • 1986 Anthony Award nomination for best novel, Killing Orders<ref name="nominees">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 1989 Anthony Award nomination for best novel, Blood Shot<ref name="nominees"/>
  • 1992 Anthony Award winner of best short story collection, A Woman's Eye<ref name="winners">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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ReferencesEdit

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External linksEdit

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