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...
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Stratemeyer accordingly began writing plot outlines and hired Mildred Wirt, later Mildred Wirt Benson, to ghostwrite the first volumes in the series under the...
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actual author was ghostwriter Mildred Wirt Benson. As agreed in 1993, an acknowledgement was made to Mildred Wirt Benson in the 2002 printing which reads...
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her father. It was loosely based on the novel of the same name by Mildred Wirt Benson. The film was released by Warner Bros. on September 9, 1939. Elderly...
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the founder of the Syndicate, hired writers, beginning with Mildred Wirt (later Mildred Benson), to write the manuscripts for the Nancy Drew books. The writers...
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1931 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, and was ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt Benson. This book, as of 2001, ranks 50 on the list of All-Time Bestselling...
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Keene. Its text was revised in 1962. This is the last manuscript Mildred Wirt Benson wrote in her initial run. She would return for volume 11, The Clue...
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1932 and was penned by Walter Karig, a replacement writer for Mildred Wirt Benson. Benson declined series work when the Depression forced a reduction in...
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was dedicated to the original author of the Nancy Drew books, Mildred Wirt Benson. Wirt ghostwrote the series under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, from...
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to flesh them out. The best-known books were written primarily by Mildred Wirt Benson, all published under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Adams outlined...
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under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Mildred Wirt Benson. Nancy investigates a small ship cottage at the Chatham estate and...
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It was first published in 1930 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Mildred Wirt Benson was the ghostwriter of the 1930 edition. In 1961, Harriet Stratemeyer...
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under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Mildred Wirt Benson. Nancy Drew's jeweler's customer Mrs. Putney asks Nancy and her friends...
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volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was written by Mildred Wirt Benson, whom many readers and scholars consider the "truest" of the numerous...
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under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Mildred Wirt Benson. Nancy searches for clues to missing music manuscripts written by...
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published in 1930 and revised in 1959. The original text was written by Mildred Wirt Benson, and she has said that it is her personal favorite of the Nancy Drew...
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2012. The Nancy Drew Diaries was launched in its place in 2013. Mildred Wirt Benson is credited with writing 23 of the first 30 novels in the series...
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Drew by Edward Stratemeyer The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt Benson) Produced by Ellen DeGeneres Jeff Kleeman Chip Diggins Starring Sophia...
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published in 1945 under Carolyn Keene, a pseudonym of the ghostwriter Mildred Wirt Benson. Nancy and her friends work to find an inheritance concealed in the...
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towns of Belle Plaine, Clutier, Victor, Marengo, and Blairstown. Mildred Wirt Benson, journalist and author, famous for writing the first editions of...
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others; and Nancy Drew, which first appeared in 1930, ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt Benson, Walter Karig, and others. Both series were immediate financial successes...
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under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Mildred Wirt Benson. Nancy, Bess, and George travel to the picturesque seaside town of...
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Nancy Drew series, written by local newspaper columnist and author, Mildred Wirt Benson. Both of these rooms are located in the Local History and Genealogy...
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for Girls The Newsworthy Tales of Penny Parker, The Mildred A. Wirt Benson Website Mildred A. Wirt at Project Gutenberg, contains e-texts of most of the...
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published in 1941. The original text was written by ghostwriter Mildred Wirt Benson, based upon a plot outline from Stratemeyer Syndicate co-owner Harriet...
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in the 1920s, after determining that they had low literary value. Mildred Wirt Benson, who is best known for writing many of the first Nancy Drew books...
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1998 Charlotte MacLeod 1999 Patricia Moyes 2000 Dick Francis 2001 Mildred Wirt Benson 2002 Tony Hillerman 2003 Barbara Mertz (also known as Elizabeth Peters...
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author Dan Carter, protagonist of the Dan Carter Cub Scout series by Mildred Wirt Benson Danielle Carter (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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Archived from the original on November 10, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2012. "Mildred Benson". Hall of Fame Inductees. Iowa Commission on the Status of Women. Archived...
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originally published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1937. It was written by Mildred A. Wirt Benson. Its text was revised and published in 1972 by Priscilla Baker-Carr...
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