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Quite a few of Duncan's novels have been recreated as movies such as Down a Dark Hall, Hotel for Dogs, Held for Ransom, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin, and Stranger in Our House.

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"I feel now as though I've been sitting all my life inside a box, and suddenly someone is lifting the lid and I can look up and see the stars."
- Lois Duncan, Down a Dark Hall

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Duncan wrote and published magazine articles. She wrote over 300 articles. In 1958, she published her first novel, Love Song for Joyce. In '66, she published the novel, Ransom, and it earned her an Edgar Allan Poe Award. In the early '70's, she was hired to teach journalism at the University of New Mexico.

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Lois had published many novels with many different genres, including horror, mystery, and even nonfiction.

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"Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot do."
- Lois Duncan

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Lois Duncan Stienmetz was born on April 28th, 1934 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated high school in 1952 and began college but dropped out to start a family with Joseph Cardozo. Eventually they divorced and she moved to Albuquerque with her children.

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September 18, 1970-July 17, 1989

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In 1989, tragedy struck when Lois' youngest daughter, Kaitlyn Arquette, was murdered. Duncan  mourned her daughters death by writing a book on her daughters secret life and attempting to solve her murder. Who Killed My Daughter is a novel on the story of her daughter.