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Title: Lois Duncan


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Lois Duncan
  • Grew up in
  • Always knew she wanted to be a
  • Submitted her first story to a magazine at age
  • Made her first sale at
  • During high school, she was a for
    young people publications, particularly Seventeen
    magazine

Sarasota, Florida
Writer
10
13
Regular writer
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My First book was a young adult novel because I
wrote it at age 20, and teenage subject matter
was all I knew about. Duncan says. Today,
although I write other types of books as well, I
still choose to write primarily for teenagers
because I love the sensitivity, vulnerability,
and responsiveness of that age reader.
3
Lois Duncan As a writer
  • best known for her
    novels
  • Her books are and
    carefully constructed every
    is there for a reason.

Psychological suspense
Tightly plotted
sentence
4
Who Killed My Daughter?
  • True story that details the
  • to find the about the
    murder of her 18 year-old
  • Written in as the
    true horror story unfolded.
  • During this time Lois Duncan was
  • unable to write a

the search
truth
daughter
"real time"
fictional mystery novel
5
Non-fiction
  • The Circus Comes Home behind the scenes look at
    in The Ringling Brothers
    Barnum and Bailey Circus
  • Lois Duncans hometown was the
  • for the circus in the
  • Psychic Connections A Journey into the
    Mysterious World of Psi
  • Addresses near-death experiences, telepathy,
    and the practical
    applications of ESP.

LIFE
"winter home"
1940s
ghosts and hauntings
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Lois Duncan
  • Author of
  • ranging from books to
  • for her young
    adult suspense novels

48 books
children's picture
adult novels
BEST KNOWN
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Popular Novels
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