Quote of the day
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Maureen Daly
Born: March 15, 1921
Died: September 25, 2006 (aged 85)
Bio: Maureen Daly, was an Irish-born American writer best known for the novel Seventeenth Summer. While published for adults, it became one of the first to capture a teenage audience. Some scholars consider it the first young adult novel.
Known for:
- Seventeenth Summer (1942)
- Acts of Love (1986)
- The small war of Sergeant Donkey (1966)
- First a dream (1990)