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Seventeenth Summer is a book about a 17-year-old girl named Angeline "Angie" Morrow. It takes place in the early 1940s in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Angie gets asked out on her first date by local high school basketball star Jack Duluth. They fall in love, knowing that Angie has to leave for college in Chicago in the fall and Jack is moving with ...
May 31, 2021 · One of the earliest full-length teen girl books of the 1940s, and arguably the first Young Adult novel, is Daly’s first novel, Seventeenth Summer. Since the category did not exist at that time it was issued as an adult novel, though Maureen Daly herself was still – just – a teenager, and still at college when she finished writing it.
Maureen Daly. 26 books50 followers. Follow. Maureen Daly, a writer whose first novel, “Seventeenth Summer,” anticipated the young-adult genre by decades when it appeared in 1942 and has endured as a classic coming-of-age story, died on Monday, Sep 25, 2006 in Palm Desert, Calif. She was 85.
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Maureen Daly (March 15, 1921 – September 25, 2006) was an Irish-born American writer who wrote the 1942 novel Seventeenth Summer while still in her teens. Originally marketed for adults, it described a contemporary teenage romance and drew a large teenage audience. It is regarded by some as the first young adult novel, and the market niche of ...
Plot Summary. Seventeenth Summer (1942) is Irish-born American Maureen Daly’s debut young-adult novel. Set during summertime in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, the story follows seventeen-year-old Angeline “Angie” Morrow. When Angie is asked out on her first date by popular basketball player Jack Duluth, the two begin to fall in love.
May 13, 2019 · Attend Maureen Daly Day beginning at 6 p.m. at Annie’s Fountain City Café, 72 S. Main St., Fond du Lac. The event will continue at 7 p.m. at Galloway House and Village, 336 Old Pioneer Road ...
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Maureen Daly (1921–2006), still in college when she wrote Seventeenth Summer, captured quintessential adolescent experiences with extraordinary freshness and sensitivity. Seventeenth Summer was chosen unanimously as the first winner of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Literacy Fellowship. She has also been honored with the O. Henry ...
