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Sue Grafton

"I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities."

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"I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities."

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"Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can."
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