Mildred Benson was the original author of the Nancy Drew series.Unknown Mildred Benson was a very confusing person.

While I was researching her to write this, I found out that she is not who she seems.

I found out that when you write books the author doesn’t have to be your real name. This is what Mildred did. She has been named over a dozen different people. One of them was Carolyn Keene. She wrote 23 of the 64 books in the Nancy Drew series. The rest of the authors are unknown because they went under the name of Carolyn Keene too.

Mildred Benson died in 2002 at the age of 96. In her lifetime she wrote and published over 130 books. She was also a journalist and she wrote articles for their local newspaper.

Some of the series are:

Nancy Drew

Kay Tracey

Penny Parker

Dana Girls

Penny Nichols

Connie Carl                                                                                                                               

Madge Sterling                                                                            

Mildred Benson

Mildred A. Wirt

As you can see the series are all names.

Read more about Mildred Benson here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Benson

 

The Nancy Drew Series
The Nancy Drew Series

                                                                                               

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