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
chicago cubs dies
I live and die with the Chicago Cubs
girl home kansas
I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time
writing pages nine
It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
perfect lucky partners
I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with
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.
writing thinking panic
Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
memories ethnicity people
I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.
life eyeglasses keys
I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.