Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky studied at Booth School of Business, University of Kansas and University of Chicago. The recorded working language is English. Dashiell Hammett and Robert B. Parker are recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Chicago. Residence is recorded at Kansas and Ames. Distinctions recorded are The Grand Master, Cartier Diamond Dagger, Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement and Shamus Award.

• Name — Sara Paretsky • Born — 8 June 1947 • Birthplace — Ames, Iowa, U.S. • Occupation — Novelist • Education — University of Kansas (BA) University of Chicago (MBA, PhD) • Genre — Crime fiction • Children — 3 • Relatives — David (father), Mary (mother) • Website — saraparetsky.com

Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa. Her father was a microbiologist and moved the family to Kansas in 1951 after taking a job at the University of Kansas, where Paretsky eventually graduated. The family rented an old farm house. Her relationship with her parents was strained; her mother was an alcoholic and her father was a harsh disciplinarian. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Kansas, she did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in 1968 to work there. She completed her AM (masters) degree at the University of Chicago in 1969 and completed a Ph.D. in history there in 1977; her dissertation was titled "The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War". She also earned an MBA in 1977 from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Her husband, Courtenay Wright, was a professor of physics at the University of Chicago; the two were together from 1970 until his death in 2018. Paretsky is an alumna of the Ragdale Foundation. She was to appear in an amateur light opera production in 2011. The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is the female private investigator V.I. Warshawski, and the author is credited with transforming the role and image of women in the crime novel. The Winter 2007 issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection is devoted to her work. She is also considered the founding mother of Sisters in Crime, an organization that supports and promotes women in the mystery field.

• Indemnity Only (1982) • Deadlock (1984) • Killing Orders (1985) • Bitter Medicine (1987) • Blood Shot (1988) (Published in the UK as Toxic Shock) • Burn Marks (1990) • Guardian Angel (1992) • Tunnel Vision (1994) • Ghost Country (1998) (non-Warshawski novel) • Hard Time (1999) • Total Recall (2001) • Blacklist (2003) • Fire Sale (2005) • Bleeding Kansas (2008) (non-Warshawski novel) • Hardball (2009) • Body Work (2010) • Breakdown (2012) • Critical Mass (2013) • Brush Back (2015) • Fallout (2017) • Shell Game (2018) • Dead Land (2020) • Overboard (2022) • Pay Dirt (2024)

• Photo Finish (2000). • V.I. x 2 (2002) includes short stories "Photo Finish" & "Publicity Stunts". • V.I. x 3 (2011) includes both stories from V.I. x 2 and "A Family Sunday in the Park".

• Case Studies in Alternative Education (1975). Chicago Center for New Schools. • Writing in an Age of Silence (2007). • Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing: The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

• Eye of a Woman (1990). New York: Delacorte Press; • as A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (1991). London: Virago. • Women on the Case (1997).; • as Woman's Other Eye (1996). London: Virago. • Sisters on the Case (2007).

The authorities additionally record the headings Sarah Paretsky, Sara Paretzky and Sara N. Her recorded language was English. Her recorded confession was Judaism.

• Windy City Blues, Delacorte (1995).. • (Published in the UK as V.I. for Short) • A Taste of Life and Other Stories (1995), London: Penguin. • Love & Other Crimes (2020). ISBN 9780062915542