Quote of the day
Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.
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)