Mildred wrote 23 of the original 30 Nancy Drew Mystery Stories®, including the first three. Wirt), who breathed such a feisty spirit into Nancy's character. Edna contributed 10 plot outlines before passing the reins to her sister Harriet. Edna and Harriet Stratemeyer inherited the company from their father Edward Stratemeyer.
For Nancy Drew, the writers used the pseudonym Carolyn Keene to assure anonymity of the creator. The company that was the creator of the Nancy Drew series, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, hired a variety of writers.
Even afterwards, news of her identity as the original Carolyn Keene did not become widely known until the Nancy Drew Conference of 1993 at the University of Iowa.Carolyn Keene is a writer pen name that was used by many different people- both men and women- over the years. Mildred Wirt Benson respected the oath of silence she had agreed to with Edward Stratemeyer until the 1980 trial of a lawsuit brought by Grosset & Dunlap against the Stratemeyer Syndicate. It is these strong and vivid characteristics of Nancy Drew that made her so beloved of readers and still wildly popular after 75 years. Mildred Wirt Benson (1905-2002) was herself an independent, resourceful woman and she endowed Nancy and many of her other heroines with these same qualities. (Mildred was born Mildred Augustine and married men named Wirt and Benson.) Wirt was the ghostwriter “Carolyn Keene” for 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew books. Although Edward Stratemeyer created the characters and synopsis for the first few Nancy Drew books, he did not write them himself, and the actual writers agreed not to reveal their names. The question of who wrote the Nancy Drew books was a mystery for many years.
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