ORU_Ax753.xml Guide to the Maureen Daly Papers 1938-1997 Daly (Maureen) Papers Finding aid prepared by processing staff Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives 2006
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-12-22. Finding aid is in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
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Maureen Daly papers Daly, Maureen, 1921-2006 Ax 753 6 linear feet 5 containers 1938-1997 Maureen Daly (1921-) wrote fiction, both short stories and novels, and nonfiction articles and books. She is credited with establishing the category of Young Adult fiction with her novel Seventeenth Summer, first published in 1942. The collection includes correspondence, literary manuscripts, reviews, interviews, and tearsheets. English .

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 Daly, Maureen, 1921-2006 Daly, Maureen, 1921-2006 Women journalists--United States Women authors, American--20th century Young adult fiction, American--Authorship Literature Journalism Women Children and Youth Correspondence Manuscripts for publication

Maureen Daly was born in County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland in 1921 and grew up in Fon du Lac, Wisconsin. She attended Rosary College and began her writing career as a teenage reporter for the Chicago Tribune. She married William P. McGivern (a writer) in 1946. Daly became an author of fiction, but also continued to write nonfiction for newspapers and magazines and also compiled and edited collections of short stories by other authors. Her young adult novel, Seventeenth Summer, published in 1942, was an immediate success and launched her career as a writer.

Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002.

The papers include personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, television scripts and memorabilia. There is also a collection of books that McGivern wrote, including others that she compiled or edited.

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