![]() The demand for new Nancy Drew adventures remains as ![]() Ninety years since Iowa journalism grad MildredĪugustine Wirt Benson (25BA, 27MA) unleashedĪ cultural phenomenon with The Secret of the Old Clock, Until the UI finally cracked the case wide open for the ![]() For decades, she remained shrouded in secrecy Involved the identity of the original author, who wroteĢ3 of the first 30 novels under the pseudonym Carolyn Yet the chief Nancy Drew mystery for many fans "Reading Nancyĭrew was a pivotal childhood experience for millions She compiled with Nancy Tillman Romalov (84MA,ĩ4PhD) shortly after organizing the world's first Nancyĭrew conference at the UI in 1993. Journalism professor emerita Carolyn Stewart Dyer writes in Rediscovering Nancy Drew, a series of essays "Nancy Drews were no ordinary children's books," UI The spunky heroine have been sold and translated intoĤ5 languages-with new mysteries released every year. To date, more than 200 million books starring Influential in their decision to practice law. Sotomayor-credit reading the mystery series as Three pioneering Supreme Court justices-Sandraĭay O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Oprah Winfrey, Laura Bush, and Hillary Clinton. Her fans include the likes of Barbara Walters, Inspiring young readers to unlock their potential. ![]() The fearless teen investigator has spanned generations, She is survived by her daughter, Peggy Wirt.From the Depression era to the smartphone age, She married twice, and her husbands died in 19. She was in the office the day after being diagnosed with lung cancer. She flew aeroplanes into her 80s and also remained a keen swimmer as well as regularly going into her office to write the column, On the Go With Millie Benson and Millie Benson's Notebook. When she attended the first Nancy Drew convention in 1993, she was reported to have told a friend: "I'm so sick of Nancy Drew I could vomit." She wrote 130 books in her career, including the Penny Parker mystery series. He gave her the outlines of the plots and she wrote most of the books, with other authors also writing under the Carolyn Keene name. She was commissioned to bring Nancy Drew to life by publisher Edward Stratemeyer, who also created the Hardy Boys, the Bobbsey Twins and the Tom Swift series. She had started writing stories at school and won her first writing award at 14 before getting a master's degree in journalism from the University of Iowa in 1927. Wirt Benson was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1997. I'm glad that I had that much influence on people." "I just never expected it to be the blockbuster that it has been. "I always knew the series would be successful," Wirt Benson said in December. The character has been continued and modernised, and the books have now sold more than 200 million books in 17 languages. It was a ground-breaking character at the time, inspiring readers that anything was possible and proving that not all action heroes were male. Nancy Drew was a bold and adventurous role model for girls at a time when many struggled for independence. Wirt Benson died in hospital in Toledo, Ohio, after being taken ill in the newspaper office where she still wrote a column. She wrote under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, and was behind 23 of the original 30 Nancy Drew books, which were first published in 1930. Mildred Wirt Benson, the woman who wrote the original stories about teenage detective Nancy Drew, has died aged 96.
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