Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretskyis an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the female protagonist V.I. Warshawski...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth8 June 1947
CountryUnited States of America
house trying punk
But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some punks were trying to break into my house and I chased them down.
sibling home parent
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
grandmother proud
I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.
chicago cubs dies
I live and die with the Chicago Cubs
writing pages nine
It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
sister crime members
Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.
food comfort pasta
All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.
lakes swim golden
Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
atheist agnostic ends
I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
sunday cities justice
When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.
white justice horizon
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
sopranos
I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
destiny government white
These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the black community, centuries of government and economic forces were pushing on them. I went in with a kind of arrogance, maybe, that came from living in a very intellectual family, and I left knowing that there was a lot about the way people lived that I didn't know about.
kings home kids
This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King started helping the local civil rights community push for open housing. They were sort of hoping against hope that we could educate kids in a way that could counter some of the racist messages they were imbibing at home. I don't know whether we did any good, but it changed my life in every single way.