Authors on the Air host Pam Stack is honored to welcome international best-selling author Sara Paretsky. Called “passionate” and “electrifying,” V.I. reflects her creator’s own passion for social justice. As a contributor to the New York Times and the Guardian newspapers, Paretsky is an impassioned advocate for those on society’s margins. Paretsky served with then-state senator Obama on the board of Thresholds, which serves Chicago’s mentally ill homeless. In 1986 she created Sisters in Crime, a worldwide organization to support women crime writers, which earned her Ms. Magazine’s 1987 Woman of the Year award, the British Crime Writers awarded her the Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement; from Blacklist won the Gold Dagger from the British Crime Writers for best novel of 2004, and she has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from several different universities. To learn more about Sara visit her website at www.saraparetsky.com/ and purchase her books on Amazon at amzn.to/1ESmSUE.

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