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Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson (July 10, 1905 – May 28, 2002) was an American journalist and writer of children's books. She wrote some of the earliest Nancy Drew mysteries and created the detective's adventurous personality. [ 2 ]
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 $125 for each book and were required by their contract to give up all rights to the work and to maintain confidentiality.
Mildred Wirt Benson is credited with writing 23 of the first 30 novels in the series. Other authors contributed as well, but in 1959, Edward Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet Adams, began rewriting the earlier books in the series, sometimes substituting entirely new plots while retaining the same title.
The Whispering Statue is the fourteenth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was written by Mildred Wirt Benson, [1] whom many readers and scholars consider the "truest" of the numerous Carolyn Keene ghostwriters, following an outline by Harriet Stratemeyer. [2]
Penny Parker is the heroine of a series of 17 books written by Mildred Benson and published from 1939 through 1947. Penny is a high school student turned sleuth who also sporadically works as a reporter for her father's newspaper, The Riverview Star.
Mildred Wirt Benson is one of many authors who have taken on the pseudonym "Carolyn Keene" to write some of the earliest Nancy Drew mystery novels published since 1930. The University of Iowa ...
Mildred Wirt Benson was the ghostwriter of the 1930 edition. [2] In 1961, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams extensively revised the novel, creating a completely different story. The original omitted the lead characters from much of the action, the titular inn was only a place where a crime was committed with minor investigatory follow-up, and a ...
The actual author was ghostwriter Mildred Wirt Benson. [1] As agreed in 1993, [2] an acknowledgement was made to Mildred Wirt Benson in the 2002 printing which reads as follows: "Acknowledgement is made to Mildred Wirt Benson, who under the pen name Carolyn Keene, wrote the original NANCY DREW books."