Sara paretsky biography wikipedia

Born 8 June , Ames, Iowa

Daughter of David and Mary Edwards Paretsky; married Courtenay Wright, ; children: Kimball, Timothy, Phillip

Since Sara Paretsky's sharp-tongued feminist detective first inspected the scene of a crime, her lively and frequently dangerous sleuthings have had a strong impact on the genre of the mystery novel.

Paretsky, determined to overcome the tired stereo-types of women in literature, created a semitough, smart, sexy female (partial to silk shirts and early morning jogs) to tackle the dirty business of crime. Indemnity Only () was the debut of Paretsky's half Italian/half Polish version of the classic hardboiled private eye, V.I.

(for Victoria Iphigenia) Warshawski. Vic is streetwise but compassionate, determined to see the innocent relieved of their sufferings and equally determined the guilty should be punished. On her first case, she tracks a missing woman but uncovers more than a simple disappearance: there has been at least