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Name: Sara Paretsky  
   
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Date of Birth: 8th June 1947
   
Place of Birth: Ames, Iowa, USA
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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Sara Paretsky (b. June 8, 1947 in Ames, Iowa) is a contemporary American author of detective fiction. Paretsky was raised in Kansas. She graduated from the University of Kansas in political science and eventually earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She has lived in Chicago ever since.

The protagonist of all but one of Paretsky's novels is V. I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. Warshawski's eclectic personality defies easy categorization. She drinks Black Label, breaks into houses looking for clues, and can hold her own in a street fight, but also she pays attention to her clothes, sings opera along with the radio, and enjoys her sex life. Although Warshawski's temper, impulsiveness, and independence land her in most of the danger she faces, the reader still roots for her to win out against the thugs, swindlers, and male chauvinists.

Paretsky's plots are formulaic thrillers: Someone is murdered in the early pages to conceal a crime (which often involve important corporations and their business in Paretsky's novels), and more killings follow, culminating with Warshawski herself narrowly escaping being killed in a climactic confrontation with the murderer. The lack of variety in storylines is compensated for by rich details about the lives and businesses of Paretsky's characters. Local color abounds, including traffic on the Stevenson Expressway, and the perennial travails of the Cubs.

External link

  • The official Sara Paretsky website

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