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It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating

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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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Crime Writer
Novelist
Writer
Ames
Iowa
Sarah Paretsky
Sara Paretzky
Sara N. Paretsky
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