9/2/2005 Sara Paretsky catches the eye

September 2, 2005.  On this day Sara Paretsky won the Eye Award, given by the Private Eye Writers of America for lifetime achievement.  Most of her twenty-something books star private investigator V.I. Warshawski.  She is one of the top authors to come out of the wave of female P.I. writers in the 1980s.  The MWA named her a Grand Master in 2011.

2/27/19?? V.I. Warshawski is born

February 27, 19??.  Happy birthday to Chicago private eye V.I Warshawski.  Sara Paretsky created her in Indemnity Only, published in 1982.   Since then there has been amovie and eighteen more novels, mostly bestsellers.