Best-selling author Lisa Scottoline tweeted that Grafton "forged a path for women in crime fiction."Įric Jerome Dickey tweeted: "RIP. The news of Grafton's death prompted condolences from other writers on Twitter. Whoever they hired to play Kinsey, you'd go, 'Oh that's not her, oh, that's so wrong.' From that moment on, every time you pick up a Kinsey Millhone book, you'd be going, 'Hilary Duff? Are you crazy? Miley Cyrus?' " "I'm doing you a personal favor by never selling them to Hollywood," she said. She has a fearless quality to her that adds some excitement to my life."Īnd she explained why she never sold the rights to TV. She is the person I might have been had I not married young and had children. In an interview with USA TODAY in 2009, Grafton was asked if Kinsey was "real" to her. In Y is for Yesterday, the year was 1989, and Millhone was drawn into a case involving a sexual assault at an elite private school. The novels were set in fictional Santa Teresa, Calif. For X, she went minimal, and the title was just X. Titles included H is for Homicide, M is for Malice and W is for Wasted. Part of the fun of Grafton's series were the clever titles and what word she would come up with to match each new letter. "She was very successful as a writer very dedicated and very talented." "She was marvelous and fabulous and adored by everyone who knew her," said Humphrey, her husband of more than 40 years. Over the years, she's received more than 30 awards and honors. in English in 1961, according to a U of L profile of her. Grafton, born in April 1940 in Louisville, Ky., graduated from the University of Louisville with a B.A. In 2013, Grafton marked the series' 30th anniversary with Kinsey & Me, a set of stories that revealed the investigator's origins and gave insight into the author's past. The novels have been published in 28 countries and in 26 languages. There will just be a 25-letter alphabet, I'm sorry to say." "With chemo, she didn't have much energy or interest in that anyway. "She was trying to come up with an idea, but she never got one she liked," Humphrey said. The novels in Grafton's alphabet series were generally released two years apart, and Humphrey said his late wife had not started writing the last book, so the series will not make it to Z is for Zero (she had long planned that title). The penultimate book in the series, Y is for Yesterday, was released in August and made its debut at No. Grafton's series starred private investigator Kinsey Millhone and began with A is for Alibi in 1982. ![]() Thursday in Santa Barbara, Calif., said her husband, Steve Humphrey. Grafton had been battling cancer and died around 11:30 p.m. Watch Video: Mystery writer Sue Grafton dies after battle with cancerīest-selling mystery author Sue Grafton, whose alphabet mystery series consistently topped USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list, has died.
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