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I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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