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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.
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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. Originally intended it for adult readers, it drew an enthusiastic audience of teens, and as such, is considered one of the early ...
Sep 29, 2006 · By Margalit Fox. Sept. 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...
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. The cause was non-Hodgkins lymphoma, her sister, Sheila Daly White, said.
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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.
Biography. PDF Cite Share. 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...
Maureen Daly is a best-selling author of young adult and juvenile fiction, editor, and journalist. She was born in Northern Ireland and naturalized as an American citizen. She wrote Seventeenth Summer, a novel about a girl's summer in 1942, and other stories and articles for magazines and newspapers. She also wrote screenplays for Twentieth Century-Fox and TV series.
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