Reviewing the novel in The New York Times Book Review, Edith H. 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 cigarettes.

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. 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.

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.

Seventeenth summer by maureen daly