Clair Blank

Clarissa Mabel Blank was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She graduated from high school in 1933 and immediately started publishing the Beverly Gray series of mystery novels for girls. She had begun writing the books while still in high school, and the first, Beverly Gray, Freshman, was published in 1934, when she was just 18 years old. She graduated from college, then worked as a typist and secretary, while continuing to publish novels. During World War II she worked as a …