Though Carolyn Keene is the name that appears on the cover of every Nancy Drew book, it’s no big secret that the books were written by ghostwriters, as were many popular kids’ megaseries of the past, from Sweet Valley High to the Baby-Sitters Club. Since the original Nancy Drew series was introduced in 1930, the girl detective has evolved from squeaky-clean teen to college coed to, most recently, a thirtysomething police officer in a pilot CBS reportedly nixed as “too female” for its fall schedule. Nancy Drew books are still being published to this day.Nightlight is Slate’s pop-up blog about children’s books, running for the month of August. There have been multiple spin-off and relaunch series, including the Nancy Drew Files, team-up series with the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew Notebooks (chapter books for younger children), Nancy Drew On Campus (a college romance-type series), Nancy Drew: Girl Detective, Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew (for younger readers) and a series of graphic novels.
The original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series lasted from then until 2003, concluding with Werewolf in a Winter Wonderland. Nancy Drew made her debut in the novel The Secret of the Old Clock, published in 1930. Many of the other details of the character have changed over the 80+ years the since character was originally conceived. Nancy often has to travel abroad to solve some of her mysteries, but never accepts any sort of payment. Her hometown is River Heights, where she lives with her father, an attorney named Carson Drew and their housekeeper, Hannah Gruen. Nancy began as a 16 year-old high school grad, but was later aged two years.
The character was created by Edward Stratemeyer, head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, which produced not only Nancy Drew, but also The Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, the Bobbsey Twins, the Rover Boys and more series. Nancy Drew is the protagonist of several series of children’s mystery novels, written under the house name of Carolyn Keene.
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