false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171058001m/84917.jpg 84917 8 A plucky titian-haired sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers' lives. Here, in a narrative with all the vivid energy and page-turning pace of Nancy's adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to icon? The brainchild of children's book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy was brought to life by two women: Mildred Wirt Benson, a pioneering journalist from Iowa, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a well-bred wife and mother who took over as CEO after her father died. In this century-spanning story, Rehak traces their roles and Nancy's in forging the modern American woman. 920928 book 2005 Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her total:515|5:91|4:225|3:156|2:37|1:6| 515 1903 918 124 4 0 false false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 08:57:01 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 12:01:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 13:48:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 06:04:41 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 07:05:54 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 06:16:38 -0700 2009 I'm not ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:36:51 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:36:51 -0800 2009 Rehak glows as a biographer of the players behind the creation of the mythic girl detective, exploring Adams's background as a Wellesley graduate at a time when few girls completed high school and her subsequent transformation from housewife to businesswoman after inheriting her father's publishing ...

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