Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)