Nancy Drew and Mildred Wirt Benson
Thursday August 21, 2008
Nancy Drew books, in one form or another, have been popular for more than 70 years. Mildred Wirt Benson, who wrote the text of 23 of the first 25 Nancy Drew books under the direction of Edward Stratemeyer, was still an active newspaper columnist when she died in 2002 at the age of 96.
How do you feel about the Nancy Drew series? Did you read them when you were a kid? Do your kids read them? Click on "comments" below and post a message about the Nancy Drew books.
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I read a lot of Nancy Drew and now my niece, who is in 4th grade, reads her too. Even though the early Nancys were set in earlier times, she still enjoys them.
When my son was in elementary school I read him lots of “chapter books.” The Nancy Drew mysteries were favorites
of ours until someone spoiled our fun by telling him they were books for girls!