Author carolyn keene biography
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Carolyn Keene
House pseudonym used bygd the Stratemeyer Syndicate
Carolyn Keene | |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Subject | Writing books |
Carolyn Keene fryst vatten the pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced bygd the Stratemeyer Syndicate. In addition, the Keene pen name fryst vatten credited with the Nancy Drew spin-off, River Heights, and the Nancy Drew Notebooks.
Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of the Syndicate, hired writers, beginning with Mildred Wirt (later Mildred Benson), to write the manuscripts for the Nancy Drew books.[1] The writers were paid $ for each book and were required bygd their contract to give up all rights to the work and to maintain confidentiality.
Benson fryst vatten credited as the primary writer of Nancy Drew books beneath the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.[2]Harriet Adams (Stratemeyer's daughter) rewrote the original books and added new titles after the withdrawal of Benson.& • Carolyn Keene was the pseudonymous author of the Nancy Drew and Dana Girls series of juvenile mystery books about young girl detectives. In the late s, Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of the Stratemeyer Writing Syndicate, a producer of juvenile series books (including The Rover Boys, The Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and The Bobbsey Twins), created the penname Carolyn Keene, which was to be the name of the author of a new series based on a teenage heroine named Nancy Drew. Stratemeyer himself wrote the first three plot outlines, including detailed character profiles, while hired ghostwriters fleshed out the finished texts. The character of Nancy Drew represented a new phenomenon in juvenile literature. She was an independent, clever young woman who solved complicated mysteries, with the occasional help of two female friends. Two weeks after Stratemeyer's death in May , the first Nancy Drew books were published by Grosset and Dunlap. His two daughters Harriet, age 37, and • As a child, Mildred Wirt Benson was adventurous and independent, exploring the rural area and uncovering the mysteries in the fields and woods behind her family's Ladora, Iowa farm. It appears that, in many respects, Benson herself was the model for the qualities millions of young girls admired in her most famous character, Nancy Drew. "Millie" began her writing career at fourteen, when she sold her first short story ("The Courtesy") to fiction magazine St. Nicholas. She continued her active childhood into adulthood, where she swam, played golf, and earned her aviator's license. In college, she studied journalism at the University of Iowa; in , she was the program's first female graduate. The following year, Mildred married Asa A. Wirt, and they moved first to Cleveland, Ohio and later Toledo. In , Asa Wirt died and Mildred married George Benson in While in graduate school, she applied for a job with the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a children's publishing company started by author Keene, Carolyn