'G' Is for Grafton : The World of Kinsey Millhone - Hardcover

Kaufman, Natalie Hevener; Kay, Carol McGinnis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805054464 ISBN 13: 9780805054460

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co., 1997

Synopsis

Written with Sue Grafton's full cooperation and including some of her own insights, two authors create a biographical background for the mystery writer's beloved heroine Kinsey Millhone, covering such topics as where she went to school and her views on justice and moral order. 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

If you need help picturing Kinsey Millhone's sweats and tousled hair; listing her personality traits; modeling your dietary habits on hers; or reviewing her early childhood, education, career and marriages, pick up G Is for Grafton. Coauthors Kaufman and McGinnis--a political scientist and an English professor, respectively--have, with the cooperation of Sue Grafton, delved into the writer's working journal to flesh out this fictional biography. Once and for all, those nagging questions that keep fans pacing and tooth-gnashing between the M-N and O of Grafton's series will have something to keep their heroine alive between mysteries. How old is Kinsey, exactly? Why do her car and her home need to be so small? Why did she become a PI--was it the wardrobe?

Included in this monument to Millhone is a delightful spread of black-and-white photos of Kinsey's Santa Teresa haunts: her offices, the marina, and, yes, the jogging path. Readers are also treated to Sue Grafton's discussion on the creation of her famous character: "Kinsey is my alter ego--the person I might have been had I not married young and had children.... While our biographies are different, our sensibilities are the same.... I think of us as one soul in two bodies, and she got the good one." G is for Grafton will grab Kinsey Millhone fans.

About the Author:

Edgar-Award winning authors Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Carol McGinnis Kay are on the faculty at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. Kaufman is a legal scholar and Kay specializes in Shakespeare, and both have run panels on women and detective fiction for the Popular Culture Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0805054464
• ISBN 13: 9780805054460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364