https://padlet.com/braxton_angeley/vzyk12pvyg8c The life of a writer en-us 2018-10-11 15:20:46 UTC 2025-11-02 02:02:09 UTC hello@padlet.com braxton_angeley https://padlet.com/braxton_angeley/vzyk12pvyg8c/wish/291793121 Lois Duncan was born April 28, 1934 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  She died June 15, 2016. She lived to be 82 years old.]]> 2018-10-11 15:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/braxton_angeley/vzyk12pvyg8c/wish/291793121 braxton_angeley https://padlet.com/braxton_angeley/vzyk12pvyg8c/wish/291838399 Lois Duncan had two husbands her first one was Joseph Cardozo.  She married Joseph in 1953 and then divorced him in 1962.  In 1965 she remarried a man named Donald Arquette whom she met at college.  He and Lois remained married until she died in 2016.  She had 5 children, 3 girls and 2 boys.  Kaitlyn Arquette, Kerry Arquette, Brett Arquette, Robin Burkin, and Donald Arquette Jr. In 1989 Duncan's youngest daughter was murdered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.]]> 2018-10-11 16:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/braxton_angeley/vzyk12pvyg8c/wish/291838399 braxton_angeley https://padlet.com/braxton_angeley/vzyk12pvyg8c/wish/291846595 Lois Duncan wrote 48 books.  She wrote mostly young adult fiction novels.  Lois sold her first story at the age of thirteen!  She published her first novel "Love Song For Joyce" in 1958 under the pen name Lois Kerry.  In the early 1970's, Duncan was hired to teach journalism at the University of New Mexico and, while teaching, she enrolled in classes.  In 1978 Lois published "Killing Mr. Griffin", one of her major critical successes.  It was selected as an American Library Association (ALA) Best Book for Young Adults that year.  She also won the annual ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award which one writer for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature" in 1992.  In 2014, Duncan was awarded the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America.

]]> 2018-10-11 16:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/braxton_angeley/vzyk12pvyg8c/wish/291846595 braxton_angeley https://padlet.com/braxton_angeley/vzyk12pvyg8c/wish/291992604 Some of Lois Duncan's books were later turned into movies, these were: Stranger in Our House, 1978, Killing Mr. Griffin, 1997, I Know What You Did Last Summer, 1997, I've Been Waiting For You, 1998, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, 1998, Held For Ransom, 2000, I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, 2006, Hotel For Dogs, 2009, and Down A Dark Hall, 2018.]]> 2018-10-12 00:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/braxton_angeley/vzyk12pvyg8c/wish/291992604