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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.
Sep 29, 2006 · 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...
May 31, 2021 · Maureen Daly (1921 – 2006) was an Irish-Born American author and journalist, best known for the novel Seventeenth Summer (1942). Though twenty-one at the time of its publication, she wrote it while in her teens.
Sep 25, 2006 · 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.
Maureen Daly 1921- (Also published as Maureen Daly McGivern) American novelist, short story writer, author of children's books, editor, essayist, and journalist. Source for information on Daly, Maureen 1921-: Children's Literature Review dictionary.
Maureen Daly electrified the publishing world with the publication of her young adult novel Seventeenth Summer in 1942. She was not yet twenty years old. The novel...
Sep 30, 2006 · Maureen Daly McGivern, who pioneered the young adult novel with “Seventeenth Summer,” a teenage coming-of-age story published in 1942, has died. She was 85. She died Monday at a hospice...
As the author of the groundbreaking novel Seventeenth Summer, Maureen Daly is credited with establishing young adult literature as a genre separate from the juvenile or adult publishing markets. With her debut novel in continuous publication since it first appeared in 1942, Daly's name remains recognizable to readers both young and old.
Ms. Daly is the author of Seventeenth Summer, a book about teenage love which has stayed in print since 1942 and won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1946. This is the book which is often said to have started young adult literature as we know it.
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.
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