Rediscovering Nancy Drew

Contributors

Contributors LINDA BARNES, of Brookline, Massachusetts, is the author of Carlotta Carlyle and Michael Spraggue mysteries. Her first Carlotta novel, A Trouble of Fools, won the American Mystery Award in 1987. Hardware (1995) is her most recent Carlyle mystery. DIANA BEESON is a Ph.D. candidate at the University ofIowa. She has been program director of University of Iowa Television since 1983 and has been an adjunct faculty member at Kirkwood Community College , Cedar Rapids, Iowa. MILDRED WIRT BENSON was the original writer of the Nancy Drew books under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Using her own name and several others, she was author of more than 130 children's books. They include: Penny Parker, Dana Girls, Kay Tracey, and Mildred A. Wirt mysteries and books in the Ruth Fielding and Honey Bunch series among others. She is a reporter and columnist for the Toledo Blade where she has worked for more than 50 years. ESTHER GREEN BIERBAUM is a professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Among her interests is the bibliographic and historical problem of determining and identifying authorship in ghostwritten books. BARBARA BLACK is community and audiovisual services coordinator at the Iowa City Public Library. She was young adult librarian there from 1988 to 1993. BONNIE BRENNEN is an assistant professor at the State University 271 272 CONTRIBUTORS ofNew York at Geneseo. She has served as editor of the Journal ofCommunication Inquiry. CAROLYN STEWART DYER is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa, where she teaches gender and mass communication and mass media law. She was coordinator of the Nancy Drew Project. DINAH ENG, of Washington, D.C., is Special Sections editor and columnist for Gannett News Service. She was the founding president of the Multicultural Journalists Association. DAVID FARAH, of Pasadena, California, publishes Farah's Guide, the reference book on Nancy Drew books and memorabilia. Farah, who is also a licensed doctor and optometrist, works as an attorney. NJERI FULLER is a reporter at Florida Today in Melbourne. A 1993 graduate of the University ofIowa School ofJournalism and Mass Communication , she was named one of twenty All-USA College Academic First Team members by USA Today in 1993. ANNE GREENBERG is executive editor of Archway Paperbacks and Minstrel Books, the young readers imprints of Pocket Books. Her job includes managing the Stratemeyer Syndicate publishing program, including Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy books. CAROLYN G. HEILBRUN retired in 1992 as Avalon Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, where she had taught since 1960. A pioneering feminist literary scholar, Heilbrun is author of Toward a Recognition ofAndrogyny (1973), Reinventing Womanhood (1979), Writing a Woman's Life (1988), and Hamlet's Mother and Other Women (1990). As Amanda Cross, Heilbrun is author of the Kate Fansler mystery series begun in 1963. Heilbrun (Cross) won a Scroll from the Mystery Writers ofAmerica for In the Last Analysis (1964) and a Nero Wolfe Award for Death in a Tenured Position (1981). KAREN NELSON HOYLE is professor and curator of the Children's Literature Research Collections, University of Minnesota Libraries. Hoyle has been president of the Children's Literature Association and chair ofthe Caldecott Award and Mildred L. Batchelder Award Committees of the Library Services to Children Division of the American Library Association. DEIDRE JOHNSON is assistant professor of children's literature in the Department of English, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania. She compiled and wrote Stratemeyer Pseudonyms and CONTRIBUTORS 273 Series Books (1982) and wrote Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate (1993). CAROLYN KEENE, pseud., of Tucson, Arizona, has written five Nancy Drew Mysteries and, with Franklin Dixon, pseud., has written two Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys SuperMysteries, including Evil in Amsterdam (1993). She has also initiated a number of series under her own name. GEOFFREY S. LAPIN "discovered" Mildred Benson as the author of early Nancy Drews and has written extensively on Stratemeyer Syndicate freelancers. He is a cellist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and an adjunct professor of cello at Purdue University. DONNARAE MACCANN, a cultural historian and authority on racism in children's books, is visiting assistant professor in the African-American World Studies Program at the University of Iowa. She has written numerous articles and edited several books, including Social Responsibility in Librarianship: Essays on Equality (1989) and The Black American in Books for Children, 2nd ed. (1985). KAREN M. MASON...