Killing Mr. Griffin doesn't encourage violence in schools any more than the story of Cain and Able encourages children to kill their younger brothers. - Lois Duncan
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Lois Duncan Steinmetz (28 April 1934 – 15 June 2016) was an American novelist, poet, and journalist who primarily wrote young adult literature and horror and suspense novels, many of which—including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Summer of Fear, and Killing Mr. Griffin—were adapted into feature films. In addition to her suspense novels, Duncan also published poetry, chapter and picture books, and a non-fiction book detailing the 1989 unsolved murder of her daughter, Kaitlyn Arquette. Duncan was also a faculty member in the journalism department at the University of New Mexico throughout the 1970s.
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The reasons for censorship reflect the social climate of the times. The publisher of Debutante Hill asked me to revise the manuscript because I had a 19-year-old boy (the ‘bad guy’) drink a beer. When I changed the beer to a Coke, the book was published and won the ‘Seventeenth Summer Literary Award.’
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