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Sue Taylor Grafton
(April 24, 1940 ? December 28, 2017) was an
American
author
. She mostly wrote
detective
novels
. She was best known for her "
alphabet
series" of books, featuring the
character
Kinsey Millhone. The first in the series was
"A" Is for Alibi
(1982); the final was
"Y" Is for Yesterday
(2017). She also wrote
screenplays
for
television movies
.
Crime
writer
Ross Macdonald
was her biggest
influence
as a writer.
Grafton was born in
Louisville
,
Kentucky
. Her father was crime writer
C. W. Grafton
(1909?1982). She was
divorced
twice and had three children. She was married to Steven F. Humphrey until her death.
Grafton died of
cancer
on December 28, 2017 in
Santa Barbara
,
California
. She was 77.
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