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Sue Grafton, 77, is an award-winning author of detective fiction, best known for her series of novels named for letters of the alphabet. Her latest novel is “Y Is for Yesterday” (Marian Wood/Putnam). She spoke with Marc Myers.
As a child, I lived a life of constant drama. My parents were alcoholics, which meant I grew up without supervision. That gave me a lot of freedom. Behind our house in Louisville, Ky., was a 400-acre park…