Clair Blank

[1][2] Her father worked as a loom fixer at a local silk mill, and later at a clothing plant in the Germantown section of Philadelphia;[1] in three consecutive U.S. census reports in 1920, 1930, and 1940, his occupation is listed as a knitter.

[5] She joined the American Women's Voluntary Services during World War II, where she drove U.S. Army officers when they came to town.

In 1940, Gramercy Books, since acquired by Random House, published Blank's only adult novel, Lover Come Back.

It was rejected for publication four months later, for "there seems to be a strong prejudice against starting a new mystery series with a school background.

Blank's short-lived foray into adult literature, Lover Come Back, was published in 1940 by Gramercy, now a division of Random House.

[11][12] As a result of this limited print run, Lover Come Back is Blank's scarcest published novel.

The book's "major ingredients" consist of: Beverly Gray, too, leads "such a life of adventure as would tax the resources of any soap opera heroine."

"[14] In 1941, George Elmer Moyer,[15] who Clair knew while growing up in Allentown, moved to Philadelphia;[1] the two married two years later, in 1943.

[18] A skilled welder,[19] he was employed at the Budd Company after his military service, working on automobiles, tank construction, Chevrolet fenders, and plastics until his retirement.