Maureen Daly

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Maureen Daly

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young adult literature
Seventeenth Summer and the rise of youth culture
…as Seventeenth Summer (1942) by Maureen Daly, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) by Betty Smith, and The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger demonstrated the lucrative potential of teen readers. Seventeenth Summer, in particular, is considered to be the first book written with that audience in mind.…
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…as Seventeenth Summer (1942) by Maureen Daly, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) by Betty Smith, and The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger demonstrated the lucrative potential of teen readers. Seventeenth Summer, in particular, is considered to be the first book written with that audience in mind.…
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