Maureen Daly
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Maureen Daly (March 15, 1921 - September 24, 2006), was an American author best known for her novel Seventeenth Summer (1942), one of the first to target a teenage audience.
Daly won an O. Henry Award for her short story, Sixteen, while still at high school. Seventeenth Summer was written before she turned twenty. By 1982, it had gone into 45 hardback editions.
Daly also worked as a journalist on papers ang magazines including the Chicago Tribune, Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post. She later wrote a food column in the Palm Springs Desert Sun. She was awarded the American Freedom Foundation Medal in 1952.
