From: madlove@arkham.dc   
      
   Book became one of SMG's films. I read several of her books while   
   growing up.   
      
   http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/books/lois-duncan-82-dies-auth   
   r-knew-what-you-did-last-summer.html   
      
   Lois Duncan, whose suspenseful young adult novels inspired the slasher   
   movie “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and who later wrote about the   
   unsolved murder of her daughter, died on Wednesday at her home in   
   Bradenton, Fla. She was 82.   
      
   Her husband, Don Arquette, confirmed her death but did not give a cause.   
      
   Ms. Duncan’s books were practically a rite of passage for many young   
   readers. They featured universal adolescent themes, like alienation and   
   a hunger for acceptance, and thrust protagonists into chilling   
   situations, often with supernatural elements.   
      
   Her titles included “Stranger With My Face,” “Down a Dark Hall” and   
   “Killing Mr. Griffin,” appearing before young adult fiction became a   
   major genre.   
      
   “I started writing for young adults because I was one,” Ms. Duncan told   
   The Sarasota Herald-Tribune in 2005.   
      
   Though her books had their share of violence, Ms. Duncan said she was   
   “utterly horrified” when she saw the film adaptation of “I Know What You   
   Did Last Summer,” which was released in 1997 and starred Jennifer Love   
   Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar.   
      
   The movie turned her novel, about a group of teenagers desperately   
   trying to conceal an accidental killing, into a horror tale in which the   
   same teenagers are systematically dispatched by their hook-wielding victim.   
      
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