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Originally Posted by Havlen  But, really, the whole YA thing is beyond me. I'm not sure when it started, but it wasn't around when I was a young adult. |
It started in libraries. I first became aware of it in the 1960's. I don't think publishers started thinking in those terms as a marketing dsignation until sometime in the 1970's -- although there certainly were books aimed primarily at teenage readers before that.