Year Inducted
1988
Career Field
Business, Creative Writing
Highlights
- A Ms. Magazine 1987 Woman of the Year
- Best-selling novelist of mysteries featuring Private Investigator V.I.Warshawski
- Awarded the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement by the British Crime Writers Association
- Chaired first KU Commission on the Status of Women and helped produce a report on the career paths of KU graduates used by US Department of Labor in developing its affirmative action guidelines
- Advocate for women with the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the Chicago NARAL
- Founding member of the professional organization Sisters in Crime
- Established the Sara and Two C-Dogs Foundation to supports girls and women in the arts, letters, and sciences