Fakih, Kimberly Olson. "The Long Wait for Maureen Daly." Publishers Weekly (June 27, 1986): 36-39. The author conducts a telephone interview with Daly preceding the publication of Acts of Love. Daly speaks of the deaths of her husband and daughter and her motivation for writing the novel. She also talks about the publication of Seventeenth Summer and her own feelings about its instant success and durability.

The article takes a look at Daly's career and fills in the years since Seventeenth Summer made its debut.

Fuller, Muriel, ed. More Junior Authors.

New York: H. W. Wilson, 1963: 59.

The article contains a brief autobiographical sketch by Daly and a look at the work she did prior to 1963.

3174 First a Dream Richardson, Lisa Ann. "A Retrospective with Maureen Daly." Journalof Reading (February 1993): 424-426.

Richardson records an interview with Daly in which Daly discusses her motivation for writing Seventeenth Summer...