![]() ![]() Īfter graduating, Grafton worked as a hospital admissions clerk, a cashier, and a medical secretary in Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, California. She attended the University of Louisville (first year) and Western Kentucky State Teachers College (now Western Kentucky University) 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. Grafton and her older sister Ann grew up in Louisville, where she went to Atherton High School. Both parents became alcoholics and Grafton said "From the age of five onward, I was left to raise myself". Her 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. Her father was a municipal bond lawyer who also wrote mystery novels and her mother was a former high school chemistry teacher. Grafton (1909–1982) and Vivian Harnsberger, both of whom were the children of Presbyterian missionaries. Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to C. ![]() Before her success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies. Grafton, she said the strongest influence on her crime novels was author Ross Macdonald. ![]() She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" ( "A" Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. Sue Taylor Grafton (Ap– December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels. ![]()
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