Lois Duncan (1934–2016)
Författare till I Know What You Did Last Summer
Om författaren
Lois Duncan was born on April 28, 1934 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the age of 13, her first story was published in the magazine Calling All Girls. As a senior in high school, she won Seventeen magazine's annual short-story contest. She continued to write for magazines after getting married visa mer and having children. She entered her young adult manuscript Debutante Hill in Dodd, Mead and Company's Seventeenth Summer Literary Contest and earned the grand prize, which was $1000 and a book contract. That first title was published in 1958. She published several young adult novels at that time including Love Song for Joyce and A Promise for Joyce, both under the pseudonym Lois Kerry. After her first marriage ended in divorce, she wrote freelance magazine articles and taught in the journalism department at the University of New Mexico. After she married for the second time, she started writing books again. Her young adult novels included Ransom, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin, Night Terrors, Stranger with My Face, Don't Look Behind You, and The Twisted Window. She also wrote works for younger readers including Silly Mother, The Circus Comes Home: When the Greatest Show on Earth Rose the Rails, Hotel for Dogs, News for Dogs, and Movie for Dogs. Her best-known non-fiction book, Who Killed My Daughter?: The True Story of a Mother's Search for Her Daughter's Murderer, is about her family's experiences following the murder of her youngest daughter in 1989. Her works have earned her several awards including three Parents' Choice awards, the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 1992, and the 2015 Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America. She died on June 15, 2016 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Serier
Verk av Lois Duncan
Vem mördade min dotter? : [den sanna berättelsen om en mors kamp för att avslöja sin dotters mördare] (1992) 287 exemplar
The Lois Duncan Compendium I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin and Down a Dark Hall (2013) 7 exemplar
Down a Dark Hall [2018 Film] — Writer — 4 exemplar
Major André: Brave Enemy 2 exemplar
Time-Life Book Digest: "I" is for Innocent | The Trail to Seven Pines | Who Killed My Daughter? | French Silk (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Last Seen Wearing | Object Lesson | Killing Mr. Griffin — Författare — 1 exemplar
Vamos Matar o Professor? 1 exemplar
Jornal Para Cães 1 exemplar
4 Books by Lois Duncan : Locked in Time / The Third Eye / The Twisted Window / They Never Came Home. (Mass Market… (1986) 1 exemplar
Kutyaszálló 1 exemplar
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Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Andra namn
- Lois Steinmetz (maiden name)
- Födelsedag
- 1934-04-28
- Avled
- 2016-06-15
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Dödsort
- South Sarasota, Florida, USA
- Utbildning
- Duke University
University of New Mexico (B.A., English, 1977) - Yrken
- writer
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Margaret A. Edwards Award (1992)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
Found: 1970s-80s YA novel about a witch moving in with a family i Name that Book (maj 2021)
For the older members - Lois Duncan has passed away i Read YA Lit (juni 2016)
80's? youth/kid book about family that doesn't age i Name that Book (juli 2013)
YA supernatural thriller where students finish the unfinished great works of dead artists i Name that Book (september 2012)
YA/Children's Book - Psychic child i Name that Book (maj 2011)
YA horror, arts school, channeling dead artists i Name that Book (april 2009)
Recensioner
Overall this was a good book. I feel like there could have been more balanced progression. It just went really slow at the begining thrn the end was over quick. Overall i would reccomend.
4.25/5. 8.5/10. I read this back in the day when I was teaching middle school, and I decided to reread it. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed Lois Duncan's books. 17-yr.-old Sarah poses as a fortuneteller at her new school's Halloween fair and soon discovers that she actually is able to see the future in a crystal ball given to her by her mother. The other students brand her a witch, and it's 1600s Salem all over again.
Tragically, Duncan's youngest daughter was murdered in Albuquerque, NM, prompting her to write WHO KILLED MY DAUGHTER? The killer was indicted in 2022, but sadly, Duncan had passed away in 2016, never knowing who killed her daughter. The only horror story she wrote after her daughter's death was this one, GALLOWS HILL.… (mer)
Tragically, Duncan's youngest daughter was murdered in Albuquerque, NM, prompting her to write WHO KILLED MY DAUGHTER? The killer was indicted in 2022, but sadly, Duncan had passed away in 2016, never knowing who killed her daughter. The only horror story she wrote after her daughter's death was this one, GALLOWS HILL.… (mer)
I don’t know what it is about Lois Duncan books that I enjoy so much. They’re not great works of fiction, but they are easy to read with just enough mystery and intrigue to keep you interested. This one has a few twists and turns that aren’t all that difficult to figure out beforehand. There is also the usual abrupt ending but I thought it worked well with this story.
Listor
Female Author (3)
1980s (1)
Witchy Fiction (1)
Gateway Horror (1)
Books with Twins (1)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 67
- Även av
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 11,931
- Popularitet
- #1,966
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 277
- ISBN
- 503
- Språk
- 12
- Favoritmärkt
- 20
- Om
- 1
- Proberstenar
- 189
The characterisation of the villain might not go down too well with Wiccans as it's based on the stereotyped view of witchcraft/witches; I think the author could've just as easily had it that the villain was doing her ill deeds with mundane methods such as poison although the 'big reveal' scene does pivot on the villain's own belief about whether or not witches from the Ozarks appear in photographs. Anyway, it's quite a good read for a teen or pre-teen audience, although allowances need to be made for the 1970s setting, mainly the fact that photographs have to be developed chemically as this is long before digital technology.… (mer)