“By a kind of miracle, and perhaps because she is so close to an experience not easy to recapture, Miss Daly has made an utterly enchanting book out of this very fragile little story - one which rings true and sweet and fresh and sound.” 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.
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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