There she worked in office jobs while writing in her spare time. She dropped out of graduate school after marrying again – to Al Schmidt – and followed her husband to Santa Barbara.
After her mother’s suicide in 1960 she returned to graduate from Louisville in 1961. After a year at the University of Louisville, she transferred to Western Kentucky State Teachers College (now Western Kentucky University), where she married James Flood and had two children. Both were alcoholics, and from an early age Sue was left to look after herself. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky, where her father, Chip Grafton, was a bond lawyer who also wrote detective novels under the name CW Grafton, and her mother, Vivian (nee Harnsburger), was a teacher. Much of Millhone came from Grafton’s own experience. A lot of the story was about her life, in addition to the case she was trying to solve.” She had problems like mine, like living between pay cheques and sometimes spending too much time alone a rich inner life. And let me learn to write fiction that aspires to be as good.” The novelist Jeff Abbott had a similar reaction: “Kinsey was a different kind of character,” he said.
Beyond that showed me how a female series heroine could work. The crime writer Meg Gardiner, a big fan, said: “With every page I wished: Kinsey Millhone, be my friend. Urn:oclc:505877781 Republisher_date 20120420141614 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120419184639 Scanner influence on writers was immense, not only through Millhone but also on a personal level. Urn:lcp:aisforalibikinse00graf_0:epub:4d2d2a00-8a46-46ba-a932-eb4e54aa310f Extramarc UCLA Voyager Foldoutcount 0 Identifier aisforalibikinse00graf_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7cr6xm9k Isbn 9780805013344Ġ805013342 Lccn 81007128 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL18224191M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:20:39 Boxid IA177601 Boxid_2 CH108201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪllen_countydonation Edition.
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