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Sue Grafton

1940 - 2017

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Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels. 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. The daughter of detective novelist C. W. Grafton, she said the strongest influence on her crime novels was author Ross Macdonald. Before her success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sue Grafton is the 4,565th most popular writer (up from 4,761st in 2019), the 6,813th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,508th in 2019) and the 517th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Sue Grafton ranks 4,565 out of 7,302. Before her are Iakob Tsurtaveli, Gordon Willis, Nísia Floresta, Enric Valor i Vives, Anita Loos, and Ladislav Mňačko. After her are Cecco Angiolieri, Musa Anter, Hulda Garborg, Grace Aguilar, Jean-Richard Bloch, and Tankred Dorst.

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Among people born in 1940, Sue Grafton ranks 348. Before her are Uwe Timm, Rex Cawley, Renato Pozzetto, Albert Razin, Rajendra K. Pachauri, and Fakhruddin Ahmed. After her are Wolf Kahler, Ole Ernst, Bill Medley, Michael Ruse, Władysław Komar, and Ignacio Milam Tang. Among people deceased in 2017, Sue Grafton ranks 347. Before her are Wu Wenjun, Robert Guillaume, Issam Zahreddine, Eduard Mudrik, Jean Vuarnet, and Abdelmajid Dolmy. After her are Eugene Garfield, Tankred Dorst, Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Vladimir Petrov, Redha Malek, and András Kovács.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sue Grafton ranks 6,815 out of 20,380. Before her are Gordon Willis (1931), Butler Lampson (1943), Barbara La Marr (1896), Anita Loos (1889), Edward Livingston (1764), and Frank Havens (1924). After her are Bisher Al-Khasawneh (1969), Eugene Garfield (1925), Ivan Brown (1908), Benjamin Briggs (1835), Ken Jeong (1969), and Ford Konno (1933).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Sue Grafton ranks 517. Before her are John Piper (1946), Mike Resnick (1942), Jane Bowles (1917), James Agee (1909), Gordon Willis (1931), and Anita Loos (1889). After her are Bill Lawrence (1968), Julia Ward Howe (1819), John D. MacDonald (1916), Robert Richardson (1955), Sandra Brown (1948), and Mary McCarthy (1912).

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