![]() ![]() ![]() Written in a straightforward, unpretentious style, the book is full of innocent pastimes - boating on the lake, Cokes at the corner drugstore - mingled with more grown-up pleasures like beer and cigarett 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, in Palm Desert, Calif. Daly was a teenager and published while she was still in college, “Seventeenth Summer” told the story of Angie and Jack, two teenagers who fall in love during one enchanted summer in a Wisconsin lakeside town. ![]() The cause was non-Hodgkins lymphoma, her sister, Sheila Daly White, said. 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, in Palm Desert, Calif. ![]()
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