Since the first “Nancy Drew” book was published in 1930, kids and adults alike have devoured stories about the clever detective and her pals Bess and George. Since then, over 600 Nancy Drew ...

The Trump administration cancelled millions in arts funding. A film about the beloved Nancy Drew series was on the chopping ...

Nancy Drew first appeared in the 1930 novel “The Secret of the Old Clock”, which was the first in a long running series of mystery novels written primarily for young women.While several ...

To support her family, Benson was hired by a publishing syndicate to write 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew books, under the pen name “Carolyn Keene.” The first book was published in 1930.

On Christmas Day in 1974, 5-year-old Michelle Miller Burns received her first Nancy Drew book, The Thirteenth Pearl, from her parents. Decades later, Burns is still collecting Nancy Drew books ...

But in the most radical departure since Mildred Wirt Benson wrote the first Nancy Drew mystery as Carolyn Keene in 1930, the new books are written first-person. Now, for the first time, readers ...

In 1993, there was a scholarly conference on her, followed by a book, Rediscovering Nancy Drew, edited by Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov (University of Iowa Press, 1995).

The Nancy Drew book collection, for me, is grounding. It’s something that I’ve had now for a long time and has moved with me to each place I’ve gone in my life since childhood.