Papers of Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson, 1915-1994.

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Papers of Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson, 1915-1994.

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Material relating to Benson's college years and her career as an author and journalist, including biographical and bibliographical articles, manuscripts and working plots of novels, copies of short stories that appeared in children's magazines, newspaper articles by Benson from the Toldeo newspapers, a memory book from her high school years in Ladora, Iowa and college years, and photographs of Benson.

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Stratemeyer Syndicate

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The Stratemeyer Syndicate, a publishing concern that generated several children's fiction series, such as Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and the Bobbsey Twins. Started by Edward Stratemeyer in the 1890s, the series was continued by his daughter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams until her death in 1984, then by partners until the Syndicate was sold to Simon & Schuster in 1984. From the description of Stratemeyer Syndicate records, 1895-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132892 T...

Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine), 1905-2002

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Mildred Wirt Benson, journalist and author of young adult fiction, is a native of Ladora, Iowa and a 1925 graduate of the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa). She was the first woman to receive a master's from the State University of Iowa's School of Journalism in 1927. She was also the first author of the Nancy Drew mysteries for the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Benson also wrote fiction for young adults under her own name a...