All, I may conjecture, will have the same underlying reason: they gravitated to what they feared most.ĭuncan’s novels revealed the small betrayals of teenage life, magnified in blood. Ask a Duncan fan, and there are legion, and none will have the same answer for their favorite novel. Lois Duncan-the pen name of Lois Arquette, who died on June 15 at age 82-had a canny brilliance all writers strive for: To create work that was intense and personal that also spoke to millions. Her novels revealed the small betrayals of teenage life, magnified in blood. Fear, in Duncan’s world, lurked in a school hallway, in the eyes of a friend, in the trust of a teacher. Griffin on each paperback cover, a portrait of a teenage girl with wide eyes and brown hair, haunted by something just out of sight. Duncan wrote nearly fifty novels, with titles like Summer of Fear, Stranger With My Face, and Killing Mr. If you didn’t read Lois Duncan, your friends did, and if they didn’t, their friends did. If you were an adolescent girl of a certain age-born somewhere between 19, caught between Gen X and millennial-you read Lois Duncan.
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