Lois Duncan

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Lois Duncan (born 1934) is an American writer. She was born in Philadelphia as Lois Steinmetz and grew up by the sea in Florida, where her parents were magazine photographers. She started writing and submitting manuscripts to magazines at the age of ten, and when she was thirteen succeeded in selling her first story. She went to the University of New Mexico where she gained a degree in English and has written more than 300 articles for magazines in America. Lois was later married and had three children. However, she was soon divorced. Four years later, Lois married Don Arquette, and had two more children with him. Lois writes under the name "Lois Duncan". Lois Duncan is best known for her novels of suspense for teenagers and some of her works have been adapted for the screen, the most famous example being the 1997 slasher flick, I Know What You Did Last Summer. The youngest of Ms. Duncan's children, Kaitlyn Arquette, was murdered in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1989 under suspicious circumstances. Ms. Duncan's book, Who Killed My Daughter? relates the facts and conjecture about the still unsolved case.