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Sue Grafton
Sue Grafton
Sue Grafton was an American author.
She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" detective novels (“A” Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California.
Grafton began writing when she was 18 and finished her first novel four years later. Unable to find success with her novels at first, Grafton turned to screenplays. She worked for the next 15 years writing screenplays for television movies, including Sex and the Single Parent, Mark, I Love You, and Nurse.
Sue Grafton was an American author.
She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" detective novels (“A” Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California.
Grafton began writing when she was 18 and finished her first novel four years later. Unable to find success with her novels at first, Grafton turned to screenplays. She worked for the next 15 years writing screenplays for television movies, including Sex and the Single Parent, Mark, I Love You, and Nurse.
In collaboration with her husband, Steven Humphrey, she also adapted the Agatha Christie novels A Caribbean Mystery and Sparkling Cyanide for television and co-wrote A Killer in the Family and Love on the Run. She is credited with the story upon which the screenplay for the made-for-TV movie Svengali (1983) was based.
Sue Grafton died December 28, 2017, in Santa Barbara, California. She was 77.
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