Sue Grafton

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.

24 April 1940

Born on the same birth day (24 April): Ashleigh Barty • Ben Howard • Brian Paddick, Baron Paddick • Cedric the Entertainer • David Crombie • David Usher • Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill • Eddie Hart (sprinter) • Eric Bogosian • Eric Kripke • Gino Valenzano • Hedda Berntsen • Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton • Jerry Jeudy • Józef Gosławski (sculptor) • Laura Kenny • Michael O'Keefe • Olivia Gadecki • Ryan Whitney (actress) • Sandy Herd • Tomitaro Makino • Véronique Sanson

Born in the same month (April 1940): Agostino Vallini • Dale Houston • Donald Jackson (figure skater) • Joan Snyder • John Havlicek • Joseph L. Goldstein • Mike Hailwood • Mike Vickers • Richard Thompson (physician)