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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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