Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the female protagonist V.I. Warshawski. 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. Being jewish, the family was limited in where they could live due to segregated zoning laws at the time, and they ended up renting 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 ultimately completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago; her dissertation was entitled "The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War". She also earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. In 1991 the film V.I. Warshawski was released starring Kathleen Turner; the lead character came from Paretsky, but the film is not based on a particular novel. Paretsky 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.
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Indemnity Only (1982) ISBN 0385272138
Deadlock (1984) ISBN 0385279337
Killing Orders (1985) ISBN 068804820X
Bitter Medicine (1987) ISBN 0688064485
Blood Shot (1988) (Published in the UK as Toxic Shock) ISBN 0440500354
Burn Marks (1990) ISBN 0385298927
Guardian Angel (1992) ISBN 0385299311
Tunnel Vision (1994) ISBN 038529932X
Ghost Country (1998) ISBN 978-0-385-33336-8 (non-Warshawski novel)
Hard Time (1999) ISBN 0-385-31363-2
Total Recall (2001) ISBN 0-385-31366-7
Blacklist (2003) ISBN 0-399-15085-4
Fire Sale (2005) ISBN 978-0-7394-5594-4
Bleeding Kansas (2008) ISBN 978-0-399-15405-8 (non-Warshawski novel)
Hardball (2009) ISBN 978-1-101-13382-8
Body Work (2010) ISBN 978-0-399-15674-8
Breakdown (2012) ISBN 978-1-101-55407-4
Critical Mass (2013) ISBN 978-1-101-63650-3 X
Brush Back (July 28, 2015) ISBN 978-0-399-16057-8 X
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