Do anyone know about Carolyn Keene? The author of Nancy Drew,?

Question

She is the author of Nancy Drew. I couldnt find any more about her.

Answer 1

Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery series, and also The Dana Girls mystery series, both published by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Stratemeyer hired writers, including Mildred Benson, to write the novels in this series, who initially were paid only $125 for each book and were required by their contract to give up all rights to the work and to maintain confidentiality. Edward Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet Adams, also wrote books in the Nancy Drew series under the pseudonym.

Other ghostwriters who used this name to write Nancy Drew mysteries included James Duncan Lawrence, Nancy Axelrod, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., Margaret Scherf, and Susan Wittig Albert.

Leslie McFarlane wrote the first four Dana Girls stories in 1934 and 1935. This series is a feminized version of The Hardy Boys. These volumes were advertised as being written by the author of Nancy Drew, and were promoted heavily on dust jackets for this series. The Dana Girls were later ghostwritten by others, including Mildred Benson and Harriet Adams. The series went out of print for about four years, from 1945 to 1949, and was reintroduced with revised dust jacket art and illustrations at that time. The series stopped production in 1968, was modernized, and reintroduced in 1972. The series was less successful than other Syndicate works, and went out of print permanently in 1981.

References:
New Front Productions, Inc. (2005). Carolyn Keene Author Bio. Retrieved October 17, 2005.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Aw, this really upset me too. When I was young I read a lot of those books. Carolyn Keene is actually a very large group of authors all writing under the same pseudonym. I'm sorry to be the one to have to disappoint you too. This really bothered me when I was younger.

Answer 3

I don't know if that is her true name or not, but the name of the person who created /invented the charachters in both the nancy Drew and The hardy boys series is Arlene Sidaris. Her husband is Andy Sidaris, he is the producer of hundreds of B films you might see on cinemax. He used to be a sports announcer for ABC, did monday night football.

Both Andy & Arlene are close friends of mine, they love in Los Angeles, but Andy is from Shreveport, Louisiana and visits several times a year, and films most of his movies in Shreveport.
Feel free to e-mail me at [e-mail]. I will talk to Arlene on the 5th of September, so if you have any specific questions for her I will pass then along

Answer 4

http://nancy-drew.mysterynet.com/nancydrew/kids/nancy/carolyn-keene-author.shtml