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Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. Mystery writer Sue Grafton, shown in , died Thursday after a two-year battle with cancer. By Victoria Kim. Victoria Kim. Follow Us twitter instagram email facebook. More From the Los Angeles Times. There will just be a letter alphabet, I'm sorry to say. The novels have been published in 28 countries and in 26 languages. Grafton, born in April in Louisville, Ky.

Over the years, she's received more than 30 awards and honors. Part of the fun of Grafton's series were the clever titles and what word she would come up with to match each new letter. For X , she went minimal, and the title was just X. The novels were set in fictional Santa Teresa, Calif. In Y is for Yesterday , the year was , and Millhone was drawn into a case involving a sexual assault at an elite private school.

I know that doesn't come as a big shock. She is the person I might have been had I not married young and had children. And let me learn to write fiction that aspires to be as good.

She had problems like mine, like living between pay cheques and sometimes spending too much time alone; a rich inner life. A lot of the story was about her life, in addition to the case she was trying to solve.

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. Both were alcoholics, and from an early age Sue was left to look after herself. The relationship ended quickly. She dropped out of graduate school after marrying again — to Al Schmidt — and followed her husband to Santa Barbara. She forged a path for women in crime fiction, and all of us followed and adored her.

Deepest condolences to her family. I'm deeply grieved to learn of Sue Grafton's death. Kinsey and VI were both born in and our writing worlds have been closely twined ever since. This is a grievous loss. Story highlights Grafton started the alphabet novels in Her last published book was "Y is for Yesterday". Although we knew this was coming, it was unexpected and fast.



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