AWARDS, HONORS:Īward from Friends of American Writers, 1985, for Deadlock named one of Ms. Private Eye Writers of America, Authors Guild, Sisters in Crime (founder and president, 1987-88), Crime Writers Association, Chicago Network. Featured in the documentary film Women of Mystery: Three Writers Who Forever Changed Detective Fiction, directed by Pamela Briggs and William McDonald, 1996 appeared in pro-civil liberties advertisements funded by the American Civil Liberties Union. Northwestern University, Chicago, writer-in-residence, 1998. Urban Research Corp., Chicago, IL, publications manager, 1971-74 freelance business writer, 1974-77 Continental National America (CNA an insurance company), Chicago, manager of advertising and direct mail marketing programs, 1977-86. Hobbies and other interests: Baseball (Chicago Cubs), singing.

Education: University of Kansas, B.A., 1967 University of Chicago, M.B.A., 1977, Ph.D., 1977. (Jan.Born June 8, 1947, in Ames, IA daughter of David Paretsky (a scientist) and Mary Edwards (a librarian) married Courtenay Wright (a professor), Jchildren: Kimball, Timothy, Philip. Paretsky taps a different vein and strikes gold in this timely tale of fear and conflict in heartland America. Meanwhile, Gina stirs prejudices and passions to a fever pitch. The Schapens’ fundamentalist doctrines come to the fore when they discover “a perfect red heifer” in their dairy herd that may be a path to riches as well as to the second coming. Chip Grellier, after being expelled from high school, enlists in the army and is killed in Iraq with devastating effects on his family. ), weaves a gripping contemporary novel around three farm families-the Grelliers, Fremantles and Schapens-that can trace their Kaw Valley, Kans., roots back to the 1850s, a time of violent clashes between antislavery and proslavery forces in “Bleeding Kansas.” Their shared history is no buffer against the storm of changes that begin with the arrival of Gina Haring, a lesbian Wiccan. Warshawski detective series (e.g., the Holocaust in Total Recall Bestseller Paretsky, who has tackled weighty issues in her V.I.

Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky