Clarissa Mabel Blank was an American author. She is best known for the Beverly Gray mystery series.
Clair Blank was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Her father, Edgar H. Blank, was a loom fixer and later a knitter. Blank went to Herbst Elementary School and then Olney High School in Philadelphia. She graduated with honours. Blank then attended Peirce School of Business Administration.
She started working as a typist in Philadelphia. By 1940, she became a secretary. During World War II, Blank joined the American Women's Voluntary Services.
Clair Blank wrote the Beverly Gray series and four other novels. The Adventure Girls Series came out in 1936. Her only adult novel, Lover Come Back, was published in 1940. Two manuscripts remained unpublished. The Adventure Girls series did not continue after three books.
The Adventure Girls books are now in the public domain. The series was copyrighted in 1936 and was reissued in 1942.
Lover Come Back was Blank's attempt at adult literature. Gramercy, a division of Random House, published it. It was not widely distributed and shares similarities with the Beverly Gray series.
Blank married George Elmer Moyer in 1943. They had two sons.
Clair Blank died in 1965 in Philadelphia.
