Carolyn Keene isn't a real person just a fake name that people who want to write Nancy Drew books use
There is no Carolyn Keene. It was a "house name" by Edward Stratemeyer who wrote the outlines to the books. Then he hired a number of authors to write the books using his outline. There were 56 Nancy Drew books.
Carolyn keene writes the Nancy Drew books. Her real name is Mildred Wirt Benson - Carolyn Keene is a false name, or pseudonym.
Carolyn Keene is just a pseudonym, or a name under which other authors write. See related question below.New Nancy Drew books continue to be written.
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.
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.
Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym used by a series of authors who wrote Nancy Drew books. Harriet Stratemeyer Adams and Mildred Wirt Benson are two of the most prolific writers for the series, with Mildred Wirt Benson known for writing approximately 23 Nancy Drew books.
Mildred Wirt Benson holds the credit to being the primary writer of the Nancy Drew book series. She wrote the books under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Harriet Adams is credited as the re-writer of the original books. Harriet added new titles to the rewrites.
Carolyn Keene is a pseudonym used by multiple authors who have written the Nancy Drew books, originally created by Edward Stratemeyer. The books are actually written by a rotating group of ghostwriters hired by the publisher.
Carolyn Keene is a pseudonym for a group of authors who co-wrote the Nancy Drew books; she was not an actual person.
"Carolyn Keene" is a pseudonym used by various authors who have written the Nancy Drew mystery books. The most well-known author to use this pseudonym was Mildred Wirt Benson, who penned many of the original Nancy Drew stories.
There are 56 original Nancy Drew mystery books written by Carolyn Keene published between 1930 and 1979.
Carolyn Keene is a pseudonym used by multiple authors to write the Nancy Drew mystery series. The original author, Mildred Wirt Benson, passed away in 2002. Other writers have since taken on the pseudonym to continue writing books in the series.