Francine Pascal Dies: ‘Sweet Valley High’ Book Series Creator Was 92

Francine Pascal, the author whose “Sweet Valley High” series of young-adult novels became a cultural touchstone for generations of middle- and high-school readers beginning in the 1980s, died Sunday at Manhattan’s at New York-Presbyterian Hospital of lymphoma. She was 92. Her death was announced by daughter Laurie Wenk-Pascal to The New York Times. The first […]