Carolyn Keene

[Jamie Boston <BOSTON4@AOL.COM>]

According to an article in the San Franciso Examiner 2/26/78,"The Nancy Drew
series was the creation of Edward Stratemeyer, an amazing man who not only
unleashed Nancy, but was responsible for the Bobbsey Twins, the Hardy Boys,
Tom Swift, the Rover Boys and many other series characters.  Because the
Stratemeyer Syndicate had so many series, some of them were staff-written,
not produced by one author.  Contrary to widespread opinion, however, this
was never true of Nancy Drew.  Stratemeyer himself wrote the first three
Nancy Drew adventures, and when he died in 1930 his daughter, Harriet S.
Adams, took over the syndicate and the series.  She has written all the
 subsequent Nancy Drew books herself."