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	Sara Paretsky Blacklist Reviewed by Terry D'Auray
		Sara Paretsky was one of the early feminist writers of contemporary detective novels featuring a woman as a certified, card-carrying private investigator, a field formerly labeled "for men only".
		Paretsky has consistently woven political themes into her detective fiction, addressing contemporary social issues, most often on the side of the disenfranchised underdog, with a liberal's agenda and a sharp-edged, realistic worldview.
		Paretsky's writing style is proficient, clipped but not terse, wholly in tune with her novel's and her protagonist's "just do it" pace.
	www.trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/paretsky-blacklist.htm (742 words)

	Author Sara Paretsky Delivers Judith Austin Lecture
		Sara Paretsky was introduced by Austin’s daughter, Jennifer Luna, who caught “the mystery bug” from her mother.
		Sara Paretsky’s spirited and articulate lecture ranged from such topics as her literary heroines, such as Jane Eyre, who “battled against the limited odds of female experience,” to the absurdity of Nancy Drew’s influence on V.I. Warshawski.
		Paretsky’s parents funded her four brothers’ college tuition, but refused to pay hers because “girls were not worth educating.” She financed her own studies, and holds a Ph.D. and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/0105/woman_action.html (777 words)

	Sara Paretsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She drinks Black Label, breaks into houses looking for clues, and can hold her own in a street fight, but also she pays attention to her clothes, sings opera along with the radio, and enjoys her sex life.
		Although Warshawski's temper, impulsiveness, and independence land her in most of the danger she faces, the reader still roots for her to win out against the thugs, swindlers, and male chauvinists.
		Paretsky's plots are formulaic thrillers: Someone is murdered in the early pages to conceal a crime (which often involve important corporations and their business in Paretsky's novels), and more killings follow, culminating with Warshawski herself narrowly escaping being killed in a climactic confrontation with the murderer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sara_Paretsky (227 words)

	Crescent Blues\| Sara Paretsky: Collaring White Collar Crime
		Sara Paretsky: I wanted V. to specialize in white collar crime, partly because my long history in the business world -- almost 15 years, most of them with CNA Insurance in Chicago.
		Sara Paretsky: No. Actually, I taught for the first time last fall as a visiting professor of writing at Northwestern University in Evanston, outside Chicago.
		Paretsky believes corporate leaders too often assume the existence of the corporation is more important than its employees' lives.
	www.crescentblues.com /2_6issue/paretsky.shtml (1498 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Sara Paretsky
		Paretsky, who was born in Iowa and grew up in Lawrence, Kansas,; was influenced in her choice of career by her mother, a children's librarian at the Lawrence Public Library.
		In 1998 Sara Paretsky turned her attention to writing a novel that dealt with the lives of women in a broader context than was possible with the V. Warshawski series.
		Sara Paretsky, a mother and grandmother, lives in Chicago with her husband, physicist Courtenay Wright and her golden retriever Cordhu.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200929 (603 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Crime writer Paretsky honoured
		Paretsky flew to the UK from her home in the US to receive the prestigious Diamond Dagger Award at a ceremony at London's British Museum.
		Sara Paretsky has broken the mould for female crime writers and private investigators, in a field unfairly considered to be dominated by men
		Paretsky's VI Warshawski is a private investigator based in Chicago who made her first appearance in Indemnity Only in 1982.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1974000/1974794.stm (468 words)

	Sara Paretsky -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paretsky was raised in (A state in midwestern United States) Kansas.
		She graduated from the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Kansas) University of Kansas in political science and eventually earned her Ph.D. from the (A university in Chicago, Illinois) University of Chicago.
		Local color abounds, including traffic on the Stevenson Expressway, and the perennial travails of the (The young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion) Cubs.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sara_paretsky.htm (303 words)

	Crescent Blues\| Sara Paretsky: Collaring White Collar Crime
		Sara Paretsky: Well, I think any time you tell a human story, whether it's fictional or true, we really respond, because we can identify with the humanness.
		Sara Paretsky: No, I couldn't imagine how to arrange it, and I always think that kind of thing -- It doesn't sit well with me. When I wrote Ghost Country, set in the homeless world, I would never have pretended to be homeless, just to experience life on the streets.
		Sara Paretsky: It's a very alien world to me. It seems so incomprehensible to me that there isn't a way for me to think about it.
	www.crescentblues.com /2_6issue/paretsky2.shtml (1595 words)

	St Charles Public Library - Short Bios, Sara Paretsky
		Paretsky fell in love with Chicago during a summer in which she came to the city to do community service.
		Paretsky commented that both have the same sharp tongue, love to sing (although the author is a soprano and V.I. is an alto), enjoy good food and good Scotch.
		Paretsky says she is also luckier than her heroine because she has been married to a perfect and supportive partner for many years and is also a proud grandmother.
	www.st-charles.lib.il.us /readers_service/bios/paretsky.htm (535 words)

	The Dowagiac Dogwood Festival Welcomes Author Sara Paretsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sara Paretsky is far more than the creator of V.I. Warshawski, the Chicago private investigator who uses her wits as well as her fists.
		But Paretsky, who revolutionized the world of mystery novels and challenged the conventions of a genre, is an outstanding writer who also happens to be an impassioned advocate for social justice.
		Paretsky has broken barriers with her work, and her role in founding Sisters in Crime, an organization that supports women mystery writers, caused Ms.
	www.dogwoodfinearts.org /paretsky/index.htm (229 words)

	Sara Paretsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paretsky had wanted to create such a character "to try to combat some of the typical sexual stereotypes in literature" for several years while working as an advertising manager at CNA, a large insurance company.
		Paretsky is also the most important hard-boiled writer to use Chicago, a notoriously tough town, as her turf.
		Paretsky's Ghost Country (1998) continued her concern for the urban homeless, but is not a mystery and does not feature Warshawski, who returned in Hard Time: A V. Warshawski Novel (1999).
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Paretsky.HTM (832 words)

	Sara Paretsky
		I imagined this scenario: Paretsky’s agent and/or editor said, “Sara, it’s been a while since you published a book.
		The homeless, the dispossessed, the conflict between the haves and the have-nots—all of this is familiar ground to Paretsky in her V.I. Warshawski novels.
		It’s evident that Paretsky is pushing Starr toward some symbolic or mythical significance, although exactly what the character signifies is unclear.
	www.notesinthemargin.org /paretsky.html (1279 words)

	Bookselling This Week: Sara Paretsky on the USA Patriot Act
		Paretsky explained how she grew up in Kansas in the Cold War and how her parents were vilified by local media for questioning mandatory daylong religious revivals and lectures on patriotism at the local high school.
		In closing, Paretsky said, "I think of Patrick Henry's cry to the Burgesses, 'Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' and William Lloyd Garrison's cry to slavery forces, 'I am in earnest.
		On Paretsky's Web site, www.saraparetsky.com, there is a longer essay entitled "Truth, Lies, and Duct Tape" in which she elaborates on the loss of privacy and infringement of civil rights granted the government by the Patriot Act.
	news.bookweb.org /freeexpression/1908.html (645 words)

	Sara Paretsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paretsky has founded two scholarships at Kansas and mentors students in Chicago's inner city schools.
		Paretsky was awarded the Silver Dagger for Blood Shot (in the UK this novel came out as Toxic Shot) in 1988 and received the Mark Twain Award for her distinguished contribution to Midwest Literature in 1996.
		In her fifth V.I. novel, Sara Paretsky brings the private investigator back to her old neighborhood and to the past she cannot escape.
	www.bastulli.com /~bastulli/Paretsky/Paretsky.htm (2160 words)

	Sara Paretsky
		Sara Paretsky (* 1947 in Kansas) ist promovierte Historikerin.
		Sara Paretsky wuchs im Osten des US-Bundesstaates Kansas auf.
		Paretsky hat auch einige Kurzgeschichtensammlungen herausgegeben, worin eigene Kurzgeschichten veröffentlicht sind.
	de.news-server.org /s/sa/sara_paretsky.html (260 words)

	Powell's Books - Hard Time by Sara Paretsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky's incomparable character V. Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994's Tunnel Vision.
		In a case that forces her to go head-to-head with one of the world's largest providers of private security and prison services, a case that exposes dark hidden truths behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry, V.I. will be ahead of the game if she gets out alive.
		Sara Paretsky is the author of ten other books, including the bestselling Tunnel Vision, Guardian Angel, and Burn Marks.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=92-0440609518-0 (345 words)

	BookkooB: Blacklist - Sara Paretsky
		This is Paretsky as her admirers like her: Warshawski taking a dive into a heady brew of corruption, both personal and political.
		Paretsky for working some of the worst characteristics of the Patriot Act into her story, illustrating problems that too few people are aware of.
		Paretsky entwines American post-Sept 11 paranoia with 50s McCarthyism in a way which works well - her gentle political awareness makes an enjoyable backdrop to an easily paced and intelligent story with enough characters to keep my interest.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0241142261.htm (1206 words)

	Sarah Paretsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paretsky corrected that weakness quickly enough to send her up to #1 in my estimation.
		This is the last (1994) full-length Warshawski novel to come from Sara Paretsky; she's done some short stories and some editing of collections, but her latest offering in the spring of '98 is a general fiction novel.
		Not so Paretsky, as the issues are secondary to an extremely complex and tense plot - as it should be when we choose to read suspense.
	www.malicebooks.com /web_pages/private_is/paretsky.htm (1057 words)

	Mystery Guide - Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first few pages of the story are very carefully framed to conceal the detective's gender until the client starts expressing doubts about her fitness for the job.
		Paretsky has admitted that her PI was originally an exercise in wish-fulfillment, conceived while the author was herself toiling away at a boring insurance job: a woman who could use her abilities to the fullest, without having to truckle to any authority structure.
		Victoria Iphegenia ("Vic" to her friends) Warshawski is the daughter of a Chicago policeman, a graduate of the University of Chicago, and a former public defender.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkParetskyOnly.html (369 words)

	Amazon.com: Blacklist: A V.I. Warshawski Novel: Books: Sara Paretsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paretsky reminds us that although victims change, prejudice is still alive and all too well.
		I get the feeling that Paretski has done some fantastic research in the writing of this book, as the content spans cultures, generations, and politics over 70 yrs as she proves that prejudice is alive and well in our world.
		Paretsky must have been paid by the word for this one...
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0399150854?v=glance (2200 words)

	CrimeLibrary.com/About Crime Library/Authors/Sara Paretsky
		Publishers Weekly says of Sara Paretsky's fictional detective V I Warshawski, "Among today's P.I.'s, nobody comes close to Warshawski;" Entertainment Weekly adds that "she clearly leads the field" of private investigators.
		Like Kafka before her, novelist Sara Paretsky gained her insight into human foibles from working in an insurance company -- Paretsky spent ten years as a marketing manager at CNA Insurance in Chicago.
		In the late sixties, Paretsky moved from her native Kansas to Chicago to do community work in the neighborhood where Martin Luther King was organizing for social change.
	www.crimelibrary.com /about/authors/paretsky/index.html (714 words)

	Sara Paretsky books on Bennettbooksofok.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The novel ends with her becoming estranged from the friend who was hurt and questioning her budding romance with a fl Chicago cop.
		It's a little too tidy for coincidence, but since it gives Paretsky a chance to show off her knowledge of Chicago politics, the reader is delighted to accept it.
		While it's Lotty's voice that brings the dead to life and the past into the present, it's V. 's dogged perseverance and abiding affection for her friend that drive this powerful, brilliantly executed novel to a conclusion.
	www.bennettbooksofok.com /pg/saraparetsky.html (1138 words)

	liberty under threat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sara Paretsky on the chilling climate in America, where a visit to a foreign-language website can get you arrested, and the FBI can search library records for dissenting books
		It is my only hope, that against those forces which seek to silence us, to rob us of our voices and our precious freedoms, that my words, Sappho's words, indeed, our constitution's words, all these words which are only breath, will not only endure, but triumph.
		Blacklist, Sara Paretsky's 11th V I Warshawski novel, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in November 2003
	bothsidesnow.co.uk /3/monkey/paretsky.html (2783 words)

	Interview \| Sara Paretsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the most popular female sleuths in modern crime fiction was born of her creator's desire for equality for a fictional woman gumshoe.
		Sara Paretsky says that she saw too many women in fiction being portrayed as "using their bodies to try and make good boys do bad things: it was just a constant in literature of all kinds."
		Paretsky says that, as she conceived V.I., she wanted a character whose sexuality "had nothing to do with it, except that it made her more fully human." It wasn't, says the author, an easy task.
	www.janmag.com /profiles/paretsky.html (4549 words)

	Amazon.com: Total Recall: A V.I. Warshawski Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is so much to be admired about Paretsky's Chicago heroine, it is doubtful that the reader will enjoy seeing her turned from being feisty in career and relationships to downright stubborn and opinionated.
		In Sara Paretsky's 2001 V.I. Warshawski novel, the private investigator's boyfriend tells her that she bounces all over Chicago like a deranged ping pong ball.
		And if Sara Paretsky continues to introduce parallel plots, she'd do well to make sure that she gives V.I. as much of a life as she gives history a voice.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385313667?v=glance (2055 words)

	'Fire Sale' burns with righteous anger - The Boston Globe
		Most of her players live lives that have ended before they've begun, and for this, V.I. blames their parents and teachers and priests every bit as much as the literal and metaphorical swampland that surrounds them.
		In ''Fire Sale," as in her past three books, Paretsky shows increasing mastery of the mystery as a vehicle for social criticism.
		She exposes religious hypocrisy and the politely brutal, well-hidden reality of the captains of capital and the working poor they command.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/09/15/fire_sale_burns_with_righteous_anger (533 words)

	Sara Paretsky \| AUTHOR CATALOG
		Sara Paretsky is the author of eleven other books, including the bestselling Hard Time, Tunnel Vision, Guardian Angel, and Burn Marks.
		Sara Paretsky's genius made Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski a household name. Now the New York Times bestselling author explores an unseen corner of the city she loves. In Ghost Country she has written a parable for the millennium, a powerful, haunting novel of magic and miracles, of four troubled people who meet beneath...
		Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, she's become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue...
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=23175 (866 words)

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