Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretskyis an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the female protagonist V.I. Warshawski...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth8 June 1947
CountryUnited States of America
white justice horizon
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
girl reading eye
I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents herself in a sexual way, who is the main bad person. And then you start reading more fiction, whether crime fiction or straight fiction, it's just bad girls trying to make good boys do bad things, going all the way back to Adam and Eve. The woman that thou gavest me made me do it, Adam says to God.
atheist agnostic ends
I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
lakes swim golden
Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
food comfort pasta
All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.
sex writing character
I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could have a sex life and not be a bad person. You could have a sex life and still solve your own problems. It was eight years from when I started having the fantasy that I was going to create such a detective to when I actually sat down and came up with V. I. Warshawski. It was a long, slow journey to come to a writing voice and do that character.
sister crime members
Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.
giving church trying
I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming
perfect lucky partners
I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with
writing pages nine
It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
girl home kansas
I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time
chicago cubs dies
I live and die with the Chicago Cubs
loyal following
I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues
cities space people
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more