![]() ![]() She also co-wrote some books with her husband, mystery and crime author William P. She was one of the four Daly sisters (Maggie, Kay, and Sheila John) whose successful careers in media, fashion and business were covered by national magazines during the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1980s and early 1990s, she wrote two more young adult novels dealing with themes of romance. Dear Miss Daly: 1940s Fan Letters to Maureen Daly and the Age-Grading and Gendering of Seventeenth Summer. She also wrote nonfiction books for adults and teenagers as well as story books for children. Maureen Daly (Ma September 25, 2006) was an Irish-born American writer who wrote the 1942 novel Seventeenth Summer while still in her teens. ![]() ![]() While at the Tribune, she wrote a popular syndicated advice column for teenagers that later was covered by her younger sister, Sheila John Daly. Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1969) for Seventeenth SummerĪlthough Daly did not publish another novel for 44 years after Seventeenth Summer, she had a long career in journalism from the 1940s through the 1990s, working at the Chicago Tribune, Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Desert Sun. ![]()
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