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Sue, Jackie and Lester

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Marc Myers
Aug 26, 2017
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In this week's
Wall Street Journal, I interviewed novelist Sue Grafton (go here), who's known for book titles pegged to alphabet letters (Y Is for Yesterday is her latest). She grew up in a stressful household in Louisville, Ky. Fearful of a dark basement that was routinely flooded, imaginary bad guys coming down the stairs and two alcoholic parents (he…

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