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"Drew, Nancy": Mildred Wirt Benson and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (Carolyn Keene): Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Biography
Date: 20060622
Author:Cinnater, Nan

"Drew, Nancy": Mildred Wirt Benson and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (Carolyn Keene) Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her. Melanie Rehak. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2005. 364 pp. $25.00.

The mystery of who actually wrote the Nancy Drew mysteries is unraveled in this "wonderful dual biography of the women behind Nancy Drew." Even though Nancy Drew was created by Edward Stratemeyer, it was Mildred Wirt Benson who wrote, according to Rehak, "twenty-seven of the first thirty Nancy Drew mysteries." Another plot twist to this investigation of authorship occurs, however. ...

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