10 Facts About Clair Blank

Clair Blank wrote the Beverly Gray mystery series and four other novels.

Clair Blank's father worked as a loom fixer at a local silk mill, and later at a clothing plant in the Germantown section of Philadelphia; in three consecutive US census reports in 1920,1930, and 1940, his occupation is listed as a knitter.

Clair Blank attended Herbst Elementary School at 5th and Chew streets in Allentown until she was about ten.

In contrast to her parents, who only completed nine years of schooling, Clair Blank graduated from Olney High School with honors and published the first four what were ultimately 24 books in her Beverly Gray series by age 18.

Clair Blank then attended Peirce School of Business Administration, now Peirce College, in Philadelphia.

Clair Blank began her career in Philadelphia as a typist for the Keystone Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of the Atlantic Refining Company.

Clair Blank joined the American Women's Voluntary Services during World War II, where she drove US Army officers when they came to town.

In 1941, George Elmer Moyer, who Clair Blank knew while growing up in Allentown, moved to Philadelphia; the two married two years later, in 1943.

Clair Blank took night classes in mechanical engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Clair Blank died on August 15,1965, in Philadelphia; her husband died on February 27,1998.