Girl Sleuth (49 page)

“Nobody's sure why/Their impact on me”:
Dick Pothier, “Nancy Drew Mystery: Her New Popularity,”
Philadelphia Inquirer,
September 21, 1975.

“I can foresee”:
Rose DeWolf, “The REAL Mystery Behind Nancy Drew,”
Philadelphia Bulletin Sunday Magazine,
January 13, 1974.

“Janis Ian”:
Bob Sarlin, “Janis Ian at 24,”
Crawdaddy,
February 1976.

“Edna Squier passed away”:
diary of Harriet Adams, SSP/Beinecke, box 7.

“Harriet bought back”:
Harriet Adams to Marian Svenson, February 4, 1976, SSR/NYPL, box 72.

“Mrs. Adams originally agreed”:
Ed Zuckerman, “The Great Hardy Boys Whodunit,”
Rolling Stone,
September 9, 1976.

“Two extremely bright”:
Cecil Smith, “Producers Bank on Mystery Series,”
Bradenton (FL) Herald,
March 6, 1977.

“It has taken Nancy Drew”:
Winifred Elze, “Juvenile Mysteries Are in Vogue,”
Newton Kansan,
July 29, 1977.

“For more than 45 years”:
Mildred Benson to Dixon Dern, November 12, 1975, private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.

“Dear Mr. Lapin”:
Mildred Benson to Geoff Lapin, April 24, 1978, private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.

“How could they take”:
Ruth Danckert, “Nancy TV,”
Springfield (MA) Union,
February 23, 1977, SSR/NYPL, box 341.

“Ratings for Pamela Sue Martin's”:
Laredo (TX) Citizen,
April 29, 1977, SSR/NYPL, box 341.

“At a younger age”:
Lana Russ,
Independence (OR) Enterprise-Herald,
April 27, 1977, SSR/NYPL, box 341.

“Pamela Sue Martin”:
Modern People,
February 12, 1978, SSR/NYPL, box 349.

“I'm not gearing my career”:
“Pamela Sue Martin: Why I've Quit Nancy Drew,”
National Enquirer,
February 28, 1978.

“In July 1978”:
“Nancy Drew Grows Up,”
Playboy,
July 1978, pp. 86–92, 184.

“Fit to be tied”:
Melanie Rehak interview with Nancy Axelrad, Indianapolis, IN, June 14, 2003.

“Can the reputation”:
“Author Protects Nancy Drew: Sleuth Won't Enter the 70s,”
Hackensack (NJ) Record,
November 30, 1978, SSR/NYPL, box 353.

“Confessed to having”:
“She Tells about Her Banning in Boston,”
Shrewsbury (NJ) Daily Register,
September 22, 1978, SSR/NYPL, box 356.

 

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: WILL THE REAL CAROLYN KEENE PLEASE STAND UP?

“We're extraordinarily happy about”:
Richard Haitch, “At 83, Her Pen Is Far from Dry,”
New York Times,
March 27, 1977. (The
New York Times,
in fact, gave the wrong age for Harriet Adams; by the time of this article she would have been eighty-four.)

“It occurred to me recently”:
Harriet Adams to Manuel Siwek, June 16, 1969, SSR/NYPL, box 40.

“Harriet just absolutely held out”:
Melanie Rehak interview with Nancy Axelrad, Indianapolis, IN, June 14, 2003.

“$300 million”:
Grosset & Dunlap v. Gulf & Western Corporation and Stratemeyer Syndicate,
79 Civ 2242/79 Civ 3745 (1980), pre-trial memo, p. 3 (hereafter cited as
G&D v. SS.
)

“Said he regretted”:
“Grosset Sues Simon & Schuster and Stratemeyer for $50 Million,”
Publishers Weekly,
May 7, 1979.

“I think in some way”:
Melanie Rehak interview with Nancy Axelrad, Indianapolis, IN, June 14, 2003.

“In spite of”:
“Stratemeyer and S&S Call Grosset Suit Frivolous,”
Publishers Weekly,
May 14, 1979.

“A model of”:
Joanne Kaufman, “The Adventures of Harriet Adams,”
Good Housekeeping,
May 1980.

“She's read something like”:
Edward Wakin, “Solving the Nancy Drew Mystery,”
American Way,
September 1979.

“I think my father”:
Jane See White, “Nancy Drew Is 18 Going on 50,”
Chicago Tribune,
March 9, 1980.

“Making Nancy a bit more”:
Elizabeth Bumiller, “Nancy Drew: Squeaky Clean and Still Eighteen,”
Washington Post,
April 17, 1980.

“I thought you might be interested”:
Susan Aukema to Frank Paluka, March 4, 1980, MAWB/IWA, box 1.

“Many thanks”:
Mildred Benson to Frank Paluka, March 11, 1980, MAWB/IWA, box 1.

“With honored guest”:
Program for Nancy Drew fiftieth anniversary party, SSR/NYPL, box 63.

“Some terribly serious contemporary writers”:
All the information on the Nancy Drew fiftieth anniversary party in this section comes from Elizabeth Bumiller, “Nancy Drew: Squeaky Clean and Still Eighteen,”
Washington Post,
April 17, 1980.

“I thought you were dead”:
Geoffrey S. Lapin, “The Ghost of Nancy Drew,”
Books at Iowa
50 (April 1989).

“As you no doubt know”:
Mildred Benson to Nancy Hall, October 8, 1979, private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.

“In the early books”:
All excerpts from Harriet Adams's testimony come from
G&D v. SS,
pp. 342, 833.

“In the course”:
All excerpts from Mildred Benson's testimony in this section come from
G&D v. SS,
pp. 111, 176, 177, 189, 193, 225, 232.

“Even if I didn't”:
Mildred Benson to Geoffrey S. Lapin, October 23, 1980, private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.

“Skyrocketing Sales”:
Simon & Schuster press release, January 29, 1981, SSR/NYPL, box 54.

“On July 31”:
sales agreement, July 31, 1984, SSP/Beinecke, box 2.

“Juvenile publishing”:
Simon & Schuster press release, August 2, 1980, SSP/Beinecke, box 2.

“We have to breathe”:
Anne McGrath, “Eye on Publishing,”
Wilson Library Bulletin,
December 1984.

“Nancy Drew will now”:
Lorelai Starck, “That Daring Detective Nancy Drew,”
Milwaukee Reader
44, no. 34 (August 25, 1986).

“Nancy studied herself”:
Carolyn Keene,
Secrets Can Kill
(New York: Archway Pocket Books, 1986), pp. 2–3.

“Extrapolated the new”:
Deborah Felder, “Nancy Drew: Then and Now,”
Publishers Weekly,
May 30, 1986.

“All Nancy has to do”:
Carolyn Keene,
Two Points to Murder
(New York: Archway/ Pocket Books, 1987).

“It is the 1980s”:
Robert Basler, “A New Image for Nancy Drew,”
Philadelphia Inquirer,
June 29, 1986.

“We're trying to promote”:
Deborah Felder, “Nancy Drew: Then and Now,”
Publishers Weekly,
May 30, 1986.

“The day the obituary”:
Jack A. Seamonds, “The Case of Nancy Drew's Creator,”
Zanesville (OH) Times Record,
n.d. (May 1982).

“Before Geraldine Ferraro”:
“The Secret of the Ghost(writer) of Ladora,”
Iowa Alumni Review
38, no. 3 (May/June 1985).

“This should mark the end”:
Mildred Benson to Frank Paluka, December 14, 1982, MAWB/IWA, box 1.

“It seems to me”:
“The Secret of the Ghost(writer) of Ladora,”
Iowa Alumni Review
38, no. 3 (May/June 1985).

“If I am not able”:
Mildred Benson to Geoffrey S. Lapin, n.d. (September 1992), private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.

“The Great Purge”:
Cullen Murphy, “Starting Over,”
Atlantic Monthly,
June 1991, pp. 18–21.

“Nancy is no longer”:
Jackie Vivelo, “The Mystery of Nancy Drew,” Ms. 3, no. 2 (November/December 1992), p. 76.

“Mildred Wirt Benson”:
Mona Gable, “The Real-Life Heroine Who Wrote Nancy Drew,”
Los Angeles Times,
August 16, 1991.

“Bemused at this group of grown-ups”:
Cher Bibler, “Behind Nancy Drew: A Life of Mildred Benson,”
Wasteland Review,
February 1993.

“Anything about Nancy Drew”:
Mildred Benson to Geoffrey S. Lapin, March 13, 1994, private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.

“Peter Jennings”:
World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,
April 16, 1993.

“‘The Crack in the Cannon'”:
Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov, eds.,
Rediscovering Nancy Drew
(Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995).

“One woman . . . said”:
Jon Anderson, “Drew Still Draws,”
Chicago Tribune,
April 26, 1993.

“I think she took”:
Mildred Benson press conference, University of Iowa Nancy Drew Conference, Iowa City, IA, April 17, 1993.

“Carrying a red leather”:
Patricia Leigh Brown, “A Ghostwriter and Her Sleuth: 63 Years of Smarts and Gumption,”
New York Times,
May 9, 1993.

“Well, I'll see you later”:
Mike Tressler, “The Secret of the Ageless Scribe,”
Editor & Publisher,
June 3, 2002.

“But how can”:
Carolyn Keene,
The Slumber Party Secret
(New York: Minstrel/Pocket Books, 1994), p. 1.

“It's 65 years later”:
Simon & Schuster press release, May 1995, SSR/NYPL, box 54.

“The classic Nancy Drew sleuth”:
The critic is Jennifer Fisher, president of the Nancy Drew Sleuths. Much more about Jenn and Nancy Drew can be found at
www.nancydrewsleuth.com
.

“You write about”:
Jim DeRogatis, “Tuscadero Applies Lessons Learned to Songs,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
September 22, 1995.

“Like hamburgers”:
Judy Polumbaum, “The Case of the Girl Detective,”
Boston Globe,
June 6, 1993.

“This quality”:
Reprinted in
Harper's Magazine,
November 1995.

“Nancy Drew, girl sleuth”:
Jennifer Frey, “A True Woman of Mystery,”
Washington Post,
May 30, 2002.

“Nancy Drew demands have about”:
Mildred Benson to Geoffrey S. Lapin, n.d. (September 1992), private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.

“It reached the point”:
Roberta deBoer, “Millie's Gone, but She Didn't Go Meekly,”
Toledo Blade,
May 30, 2002.

“It's hard to accept”:
Mary McNamara, “An Appreciation: Clued in to a Life of Adventure,”
Los Angeles Times,
May 31, 2002.

“Long before Charlie's Angels/the cover design”:
Simon & Schuster promotional materials, January 2004, collection of the author.

“My friends always tell me”:
Carolyn Keene,
Without a Trace
(New York: Aladdin Books, 2004), pp. 1, 53.

“In 2002”:
Gary Strauss, “Nancy Drew Dusts Off ‘Musty Appeal' for New Readers,”
USA Today,
January 15, 2004.

Bard, Mitchell G.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War II.
Indianapolis, IN: Alpha Books, 2004.

Billman, Carol.
The Secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and the Million Dollar Fiction Factory.
New York: Ungar, 1986.

Black, Conrad.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom.
New York: Public Affairs, 2003.

Butterfield, L. H., Marc Friedlander, and Mary-Jo Kline, eds.
The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762–1784.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975.

Capiro, Betsy.
The Mystery of Nancy Drew: Girl Sleuth on the Couch.
Trabuco Canyon, CA: Source Books, 1992.

Case, Victoria, and Robert Ormond Case.
We Called It Culture: The Story of Chautauqua.
Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1948.

Collins, Gail.
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines.
New York: William Morrow, 2003.

Cott, Nancy F., ed.
No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Deane, Paul.
Mirrors of American Culture: Children's Fiction Series in the Twentieth Century.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991.

Dyer, Carolyn Stewart, and Nancy Tillman Romalov, eds.
Rediscovering Nancy Drew.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995.

Emerson, Alice B.
Ruth Fielding and Her Great Scenario; or, Striving for the Motion Picture Prize.
New York: Cupples & Leon, 1927.

Evans, Sara M.
Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America.
New York: Free Press, 1989.

Fass, Paula, and Mary Ann Mason.
Childhood in America.
New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Foner, Eric and John A. Garraty, eds.
The Reader's Companion to American History.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

Friedan, Betty.
The Feminine Mystique.
Introduction by Anna Quindlen. 1963. Reprint, New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.

Garis, Roger.
My Father Was Uncle Wiggily: The Story of the Remarkable Garis Family.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.

Geiger, Roger, ed.
The American College in the Nineteenth Century.
Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000.

Glasscock, Jean, and Katherine C. Balderston, eds.
Wellesley College, 1875–1975: A Century of Women.
Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, 1975.

Goddard, Stephen B.
Getting There: The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century.
New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Hackett, Alice Payne.
Wellesley: Part of the American Story.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1949.