Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author of detective novels.
20 Facts About Sue Grafton
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Sue Grafton's father was a municipal bond lawyer who wrote mystery novels and her mother was a former high school chemistry teacher.
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Sue Grafton's father enlisted in the Army during World War II when she was three and returned when she was five, after which her home life started falling apart.
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Sue Grafton attended the University of Louisville and Western Kentucky State Teachers College in her sophomore and junior years before graduating from the University of Louisville in 1961 with a bachelor's degree in English Literature and minors in humanities and fine arts.
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Sue Grafton's mother killed herself in 1960 after returning home from an operation to remove esophageal cancer brought on by years of drinking and smoking.
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Sue Grafton's father died in 1982, a few months before "A" Is for Alibi was published.
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Sue Grafton's father was enamored of detective fiction and wrote at night.
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Sue Grafton taught Grafton lessons on the writing and editing process and groomed her to be a writer.
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Unable to find success with her novels, Sue Grafton turned to screenplays.
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Sue Grafton sold the movie rights for The Lolly-Madonna War and co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film.
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Sue Grafton is credited with the story upon which the screenplay for the made for TV movie Svengali was based.
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Sue Grafton's fantasies were so vivid that she decided to write them down.
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Sue Grafton immediately sat down and made a list of all of the crime-related words that she knew.
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Sue Grafton followed the lead of Ross Macdonald, who created the fictional version of the city.
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Sue Grafton said that the series would end with "Z" Is for Zero, but she died before she could begin writing it.
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Sue Grafton's novels have been published in 28 countries and in 26 languages.
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Sue Grafton refused to sell the film and television rights, because writing screenplays "cured" her of the desire to work with Hollywood.
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Sue Grafton's style is characteristic of hardboiled detective fiction, according to the authors of 'G' is for Sue Grafton, who describe it as "laconic, breezy, wise-cracking".
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Sue Grafton married her third husband, Steven F Humphrey, in 1978.
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Sue Grafton died at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara on December 28,2017, after a two-year battle with cancer of the appendix.