# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sue-grafton
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:07:07.940Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sue-grafton"
name: "Sue Grafton"
slug: "sue-grafton"
description: "Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the \"alphabet series\" featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W. Grafton, she said the strongest influence on her crime novels was author Ross Macdonald. Before her success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies."
tagline: "American writer (1940-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SueGrafton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-04-24"
deathDate: "2017-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.769686863072077
  historical:           24.135068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "SueGrafton"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333859/"
    handle:    "nm0333859"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.suegrafton.com/"
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    title: "Սյու Գրաֆթոն"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump