There were several writers that wrote the books but Carolyn Keene was the "house name." Mildred Benson, Walter Karig, Wilhelmina Rankin, Margaret Scherf, Iris Vinton, Alma Sasse, George Waller, Charles Strong, and Patricia Doll. Edward Stratemeyer edited the first three and Harriet Adams edited the rest.
The Nancy Drew mystery book series is written by a number of ghost writers who all go by the same pen name, Carolyn Keene. Edward Stratemeyer created the character, but hired Mildred Wirt Benson.
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Carolyn Keene is a pseudonym used by multiple authors who have written Nancy Drew books. The first Nancy Drew book was published in 1930, and the series has been written by various authors over the years.
she is a teen detective that solves mysteries! Nancy Drew is the main character of the Nancy Drew mystery stories, Nancy Drew on Campus books, and Nancy Drew Files books.
The original publisher for Nancy Drew was Grosset and Dunlap, part of the Edward Stratenmeyer syndicate, which was eventually bought out by Simon and Schuester, the current publishers.
Nancy Drew books are children's books.
There never was a person named Carolyn Keene. It was a "house name" for books by Edward Stratemeyer for the Nancy Drew books. He wrote the outline and then hired other people to write the books. Mildred Wirt Benson was the first house writer. There were others. This allowed Stratemeyer to publish books quickly. He had house writers for the Nancy Drew series, Hardy Boys and other series.
There are 56 original Nancy Drew mystery books written by Carolyn Keene published between 1930 and 1979.
Some of the books were written by the same author from Nancy Drew. But both series have been written by a whole slew of different Ghost Writers, meaning they write in the series under the same Pen-name as the original author.
Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym used by several authors to write the Nancy Drew series. The original Nancy Drew books were written by Mildred Wirt Benson under the pen name Carolyn Keene. Benson wrote 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew books. Subsequent books in the series were written by a variety of authors using the same pseudonym.
There were 25 books written in this series which ran from 1995 to 1998.
They are Fiction books, Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys are fictional characters.