The Mildred Wirt Benson Collection [Nancy Drew mystery series]
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: The Mildred Wirt Benson Collection [Nancy Drew mystery series]
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:21:40 -0400
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The Mildred Wirt Benson Collection
Featuring digitized artifacts about University of Iowa alumna Mildred
Wirt Benson: journalist, pilot, amateur archaeologist, ghostwriter, and
the original author of the best-selling Nancy Drew B. mystery series
"For this series I have in mind one of our younger writers, a woman
who has just graduated from college and who has written one book already
for my Syndicate and a number of stories for St. Nicholas and other
high-grade magazines... She writes particularly well of college girls
and their doings, both in college and out, and I feel that she could
make a real success of this new line." -- Edward Stratemeyer, June 8,
1927 [1 <http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/mwb/references.html>]
When the head of Stratemeyer Syndicate sought a ghostwriter for his
latest girls' series, it's not surprising that he selected Mildred Wirt
Benson. Young, intelligent, and competent, Benson represented the
qualities he envisioned for a new, modern type of heroine. Stratemeyer's
Nancy Drew, unlike many of her fictional peers, would not focus on
school, romance, or domestic affairs, but on adventure and action. She
was in good hands with the very active Mildred Wirt Benson. [more:
<http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/mwb/intro.html>]