

Her father was a municipal bond lawyer who also wrote mystery novels and her mother was a former high school chemistry teacher. Grafton (1909–1982) and Vivian Harnsberger, both of whom were the children of Presbyterian missionaries. Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to C.

Before her success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies. Grafton, she said the strongest influence on her crime novels was author Ross Macdonald. 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. Sue Taylor Grafton (Ap– December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels.
