Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

Name: Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
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ISBN: 9780156030564

ISBN-10: 015603056X

ISBN-13: 9780156030564

Edition: N/A

Authors: Melanie Rehak

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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…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 9/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

MELANIE REHAK is the author of Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her , which won an Edgar Award and an Agathanbsp;Award. Rehak has written for the New York Times Magazine , The New Yorker , The Nation , and other periodicals. Her column on food books, "Paper Palate," appears in Bookforum .



The Stratemeyer Clan


Mildred


Alma Mater


Hawkeye Days


Nell Cody, Helen Hale, Diana Dare


Nancy Drew Land


Syndicate for Sale


An Unfortunate Break; or, The Cleveland Writer Comes into Her Own


Motherhood and Nancy Drew


""They Are Nancy""


The Kids Are Hep


Nancy in the Age of Aquarius


Will the Real Carolyn Keene Please Stand Up?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index