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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.
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"Seventeenth Summer" by Maureen Daly is a beautifully written, tender coming-of-age novel that transports readers to the 1940s. With gentle and poetic prose, Daly weaves a heartfelt narrative that explores youth, love, and self-discovery.
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Seventeenth Summer is a young adult novel written by Maureen Daly and published in 1942. It is considered Daly's debut novel, and is considered one of the earliest entries of young adult fiction.
Biography. 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 became a...
