Contents
Acknowledgments
The Nancy Drew Phenomenon: Rediscovering Nancy Drew
in Iowa,
1. Nancy Drew: A Moment in Feminist History
Part I. Creating and Publishing Nancy Drew
2. From Paragraphs to Pages: The Writing and Development of
Stratemeyer Syndicate Series
3. Publishing the Applewood Reprints
4. The History of the Stratemeyer Books:
Questions and Answers
5. Searching for Carolyn Keene
6. Fulfilling a Quest for Adventure
7. Fashioning the New Nancy Drews
8. Assuming the Role: Writing the New Nancy Drews
9. The New Nancy Drew Series: Questions and Answers
Part II. Reading Nancy Drew, Reading Stereotypes
10. "Reading" the Stories of Reading:
Nancy Drew Testimonials
11. Children's Series Books and the Rhetoric of Guidance:
A Historical Overview
12. Using Series as Bait in the Public Library
13. Series Books and Competing Mandates in the School Library
14. Nancy Drew and the Myth of White Supremacy
15. Fixing Nancy Drew: African American Strategies for Reading
16. Befriending Nancy Drew across Cultural Boundaries
Part III. Collecting and Studying Nancy Drew
17. An Interview with David Farah
18. Yellowback Library and the Collector
19. A Bibliographic Mystery: Missing Books,
Missing Authors
20. The Case of the Missing Manuscripts:
Doing Archival Research on Children's Series Authors
21. Mildred Wirt Benson Books and the Iowa Authors Collection
22. Sources for Research on Nancy Drew
Part IV. Transforming Nancy Drew
23. Translating Nancy Drew from Print to Film
24. I Owe It All to Nancy Drew
25. Nancy and Carlotta: Lives Together, Worlds Apart
26. Adult Mystery Writers: Questions and Answers
27. Drawing on a Sleuth: The Case of the Nancy Drew Series
Nancy Drew Titles, 1930- 1994
Books by Mildred Wirt Benson
Bibliography
Contributors
Index