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	Science Fair Projects - Mildred Benson
		Mildred Benson wrote for the Stratemeyer Syndicate from 1929 to 1947, contributing to 20 of the first, originally published, Nancy Drew mysteries.
		Benson was born Mildred Augustine in Ladora, Iowa, and was married to Asa Wirt and, after Wirt's death, to George Benson, editor of the Toledo Blade newspaper of Toledo, Ohio.
		However, in 1980 Mildred Benson's testimony which she offered in a court case involving the publishers revealed her identity to the public as a contributor to the Nancy Drew mystery stories.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Mildred_Benson (716 words)

	Mildred Benson
		Mildred Wirt Benson (July 10, 1905, to May 28, 2002), writing as Carolyn Keene, was the author of 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew mysteries.
		Benson was born Mildred Augustine in Ladora, Iowa, and was married to Asa Wirt and, after Wirt's death, to George Benson, editor of the Toledo Blade[?].
		With that, Benson was able to solve, for the public at least, the final Nancy Drew mystery.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Mildred_Benson.html (195 words)

	Benson, Mildred Wirt
		Mildred Wirt Benson was still writing a newspaper column at the time of her death at 96.
		Benson was bound by an agreement with the publisher not to publicly reveal her identity as the series author, but it became known in 1980 when she testified in a court case involving Nancy Drew's publisher.
		Benson was the first person to receive a master's degree in journalism at the University of Iowa in 1927, according to the school.
	www.angelfire.com /zine2/jungchiu/Benson.html (988 words)

	WOSU Presents Ohioana Authors \| Mildred Wirt Benson (Carolyn Keene)
		Benson’s fame is cloaked by the fictitious Carolyn Keene, a name used by Benson – and as many as five others – to write the original 56 Nancy Drew stories.
		Mildred Augustine was born in 1905 in Ladora, Iowa.
		Benson, who lived and worked in Toledo until her death at age 96, ghostwrote 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew mysteries.
	www.ohioana-authors.org /benson/highlights.php (1146 words)

	Obituary: Mildred Wirt Benson \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		The reason for Benson's obscurity was that she wrote the Nancy Drew series for the Stratemeyer Syndicate in New York under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, the author's real identity being kept secret until it was revealed in a court case in the 1980s.
		Benson, known as Millie - she had been contributing a weekly column, On The Go With Millie, to the Toledo Blade newspaper in Ohio until January of this year - wrote her first Nancy Drew story in response to a request from Edward Stratemeyer to ghostwrite a mystery novel for young girls.
		Benson was predeceased by both her husbands, but is survived by her daughter, Penny Wirt.
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,11617,724688,00.html (675 words)

	toledoblade.com
		Benson became ill at The Blade yesterday afternoon while working on her column and was later taken from her Old Orchard home by rescue squad to the hospital's emergency room where she died about 8 p.m., said her daughter, Peggy Wirt.
		Benson - Millie to her friends and fans - was widely acclaimed and internationally known for her work on the Nancy Drew series, which began in 1930.
		Benson was paid a flat fee of about $125 without royalty - "a small amount even in those days," she wrote in 1995 - and was required to sign away nearly all rights, including the use of the name Carolyn Keene.
	www.herinteractive.com /corp/press/toledoblade_com.htm (2404 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Famous Iowans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mildred Augustine was born in Ladora on July 5, 1905, the youngest of two children of Dr. J.
		Benson wrote 22 of the first 25 volumes (and another in 1953), and kept her identity secret for 50 years.
		Benson died Tuesday, May 28, 2002, after becoming ill while at work in The Blade's newsroom, where she continued to report daily to write her weekly column, "On the Go With Millie," using a computer.
	desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/benson.html (266 words)

	CNN.com - Original Nancy Drew author dead at 96 - May 29, 2002
		Benson, a newspaper reporter for decades, was at The Toledo Blade writing her weekly column when she became ill and went home.
		Benson was born and raised in Ladora, Iowa, and began writing as a child.
		Benson "reported to work every day, and retained a zest for life and her profession long after most of her contemporaries had passed on," said John Robinson Block, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Blade.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/05/29/obit.benson/index.html (435 words)

	Mildred Benson - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mildred Wirt Benson (born 1905, died 2002), writing under Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name Carolyn Keene from 1929 to 1947, was a contributor to 20 of the first, originally published, Nancy Drew mysteries.
		As with all Syndicate ghostwriters, Benson was paid a flat fee of $125 to $250 for each Stratemeyer outline text; the equivalent of three month's pay for a newspaper reporter at that time.
		Benson also wrote many other series, including the Penny Parker series, which was under her own name.
	www.exchangegrid.com /mediawiki/index.php/Mildred_Benson (563 words)

	Distinguished Alumni Winner: Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson
		Mildred Benson is as spirited as the Nancy Drew character she developed.
		Benson eventually became a commercial pilot and until a few years ago owned her own plane.
		Benson is a member of the UI Alumni Association.
	www.iowalum.com /daa/benson.html (264 words)

	Mildred Benson -- ghostwriter for Nancy Drew books
		Mildred Wirt Benson, who wrote 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew novels -- those spine-chilling tales of the fearless teenage sleuth who motored about in a blue roadster solving crimes -- died on Tuesday in Toledo, Ohio.
		Benson in 1927 was the first person to earn a master's in journalism, held a symposium to discuss the importance of Nancy Drew.
		Mildred Augustine was born on July 10, 1905, in Ladora, Iowa.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/01/BA55485.DTL&type=printable (814 words)

	Online NewsHour: In Memoriam: Mildred Benson -- May 29, 2002
		Benson played a key role in creating the character in 1930, making her athletic, adventurous, smart and relatively independent qualities other young heroines of the time lacked.
		MILDRED WIRT BENSON: I just wanted to get away from the namby-pamby type of books that were being given to children in those days and give them something that would be a live, good story.
		In the late 1920s, Mildred Wirt went to work with him beginning by working on another series, and he was pleased enough with her work so that when he invented Nancy Drew in early 1930, she was the person that he chose to write the books.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/jan-june02/benson_5-29.html (949 words)

	Worldandnation: Nancy Drew's author dies at 96
		Mildred Wirt Benson, original author of the Nancy Drew series of mysteries that have intrigued and inspired adolescent girls who identified with the spunky heroine for generations, has died.
		Benson died Tuesday (May 28, 2002) in Toledo, Ohio, after becoming ill while writing her weekly column, "On the Go with Millie Benson," for the Toledo Blade.
		Benson was the first person to receive a master's degree in journalism at the University of Iowa in 1927.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/05/30/news_pf/Worldandnation/Nancy_Drew_s_author_d.shtml (884 words)

	Nancy Drew author lives on in Iowa Women's Archives - University News Service - The University of Iowa
		Visitors to the archives can view a photograph of Benson doing a swan dive off a local bridge into the Iowa River while she was enrolled as a student at the university in the 1920s.
		Benson graduated from the university in 1925 and worked briefly as a reporter before returning to the UI in 1927 to earn a master's degree in journalism.
		The collection on Benson, the first person to receive a master's degree in journalism from the University of Iowa, is unique to the university, said IWA Curator Karen Mason.
	www.news-releases.uiowa.edu /2002/june/0628drew.html (476 words)

	National Obituary Archive(NOA) - Arrangeonline.com
		Benson became ill Tuesday at The Blade, where she wrote a weekly column for the newspaper about daily life and older folks.
		Benson recalled her lifelong love of books and libraries in her final column published in The Blade on Wednesday.
		Benson is survived by her daughter, Peggy Wirt, of Logansport, Ind.
	www.arrangeonline.com /Obituary/obituary.asp?ObituaryID=65938587 (666 words)

	RITRO.com - Formerly Writing Tips & Advice - Story - Behind the Teen Mystery
		Benson was a journalist for over fifty years and wrote one hundred thirty plus books, she was best known for the Nancy Drew series.
		Benson was every bit the inspiration as the character she wrote about for so many years.
		Mildred Benson may be gone but the inspiration lives on in the many women who follow in the footsteps of an independent, adventurous and determined writer.
	www.ritro.com /printable.bv?contentid=3184 (627 words)

	Her Interactive Inc. Corporate Website
		Seventy years later, it’s apparent that Benson knew just what she was doing in creating a character that was far ahead of her time.
		Benson never looked back, didn’t re-read her old material, and was reluctant to do interviews about past accomplishments like the Nancy Drew books, saying, “That was SO long ago!” Her teenage heroine has appeared in hundreds of novels published in 20 languages, on television, in movies, and now stars in her own computer games.
		Thanks Mildred -- All of us at Her Interactive are dedicated to ensuring that your Nancy Drew lives on to inspire generations of girls to come.
	www.herinteractive.com /corp/press/benson.shtml (761 words)

	Nancy Drew Author Mildred Benson Dies at 96
		Benson was 96 years old and worked as a columnist for the Toledo Blade newspaper in Ohio up to her dying day.
		Benson was independent and adventurous like the Nancy Drew character she helped to create.
		Benson was a journalist for 58 years and also wrote over 100 children's books.
	www.auctionbytes.com /cab/abn/y02/m05/i30/s02 (338 words)

	[Deathwatch] Mildred Wirt Benson, author, 96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mildred Wirt Benson, original author of Nancy Drew detective series, dead at 96 Wed May 29, 6:25 AM ET TOLEDO, Ohio - Mildred Wirt Benson, who brought a young sleuth named Nancy Drew to life as the original author of the popular children's mystery series, has died.
		Nancy Drew buffs have said Benson's books allowed teen-age girls and young women to imagine anything could be possible at a time when females struggled for any sense of equality.
		Despite failing eyesight and diminished hearing, she continued authoring a monthly column after retirement called "Millie Benson's Notebook." The day after she was diagnosed with lung cancer in June 1997, she was back at her desk working on her next column.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2002-May/000153.html (555 words)

	Writer who created modern heroine Nancy Drew - smh.com.au
		Nancy Drew, the girl detective whose love of adventure and hatred of housework captured the imagination of millions of girls for almost half a century from 1930, was far better known than her main creator, Mildred Wirt Benson, who has died aged 96.
		Benson, known as Millie - she had been contributing a weekly column, On the Go with Millie, to the The Blade newspaper in Toledo, Iowa, until January - wrote her first Nancy Drew story in response to a request from Edward Stratemeyer to ghost-write a mystery novel for young girls.
		The remarkable thing was that the stories continued to appear fresh to successive generations long after the things that Benson had introduced as modern had become commonplace.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/06/04/1022982678246.html (739 words)

	Benson Digital Library Proposal
		Benson was the first woman to earn a master's degree in journalism, has been honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award, and was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in August 1994.
		Mildred Benson is a writer primarily known for her authorship of the Nancy Drew series of mystery books, many of which were written under a variety of pseudonyms.
		By seeing the markings that Benson used to refine her stories--along with recognizing how her original wording was presented, readers will better understand how Mildred Benson formulated her works.
	mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu /~dale/proposal.html (3168 words)

	NancyDrew
		Benson, author of over 130 books, a journalist for many years, and the first person to receive a master’s degree in journalism from the UI, died May 28, 2002, at the age of 96.
		When Benson agreed to write the first book, entitled The Secret of the Old Clock, she was given $125 and a brief outline, which stated character names and a rough plot for the book.
		Benson was preceded in death by two husbands, and is survived by her daughter Peggy Wirt.
	www.uiowa.edu /~iowajour/2002/fall/NancyDrew.html (658 words)

	IOWA WOMEN'S ARCHIVES - Mildred Wirt Benson Papers
		By the mid-1960s, Mildred Benson had ceased writing fiction and was working full time as a court reporter.
		There is little material on Benson's childhood apart from one photograph and some material in the memory book pertaining to her high school years.
		The Photographs series (1915-1993) consists of a few photographs, including portraits, images of Benson as a reporter and as a writer, and one of Mildred Augustine in front of her childhood home in Ladora.
	sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu /iwa/findingaids/html/BensonMildred.htm (1160 words)

	Two Great Ladies of Children's Literature
		Benson died at work, at her desk, still writing on May 28.
		Benson was a newspaper reporter and continued writing her entire life.
		In an interview with "Saturday Evening Post" Mildred Benson stated that much of her fiction was based on an unfulfilled desire for adventure.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/childrens_writing/92770 (447 words)

	Mildred Benson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mildred Benson was an adventurous soul, with wide-ranging interests and an impressive travel log.
		Mildred Benson sold her first short story when she was only 13.
		Mildred refused, and three of the volumes (#8-#10) were written by another syndicate writer, Walter Karig, who was credited for a long time as being THE Carolyn Keene in Library of Congress catalog records Mildred returned for volume #11, and continued writing the series through volume #25.
	www.ils.unc.edu /nancy.drew/benson.html (620 words)

	Mystery Magazines
		And she kept on writing On The Go With Millie Benson until the day she was stricken ill. Millie left work after feeling ill and passed away later the same day, at 8:20pm, at the Toledo Hospital, where she had been taken by a medical emergency squad.
		Mildred Benson considered herself to be very much like the adventuresome character she created in her books.
		Mildred Wirt Benson is survived by one daughter, Peggy Wirt.
	www.dvdeals.com /mystery_magazines.html (474 words)

	Mildred Benson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The writer of the original Nancy Drew books, Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson, has died at the age of 96 of honorable old age in the offices of the Toledo Blade where she was a reporter and columnist for many years.
		She has caused indignation and adoration in equal proportion, although a more unlikely focus for tensions surrounding issues of gender, class, race, and scholarship could hardly be imagined.
		Benson produced the first books in what became an inextinguishable series beginning in 1930, as a hired hack writer for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, also the producer of that other staple of kiddie lit, the Hardy Boys.
	www.goodbyemag.com /apr02/benson.html (485 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Obituaries -- Mildred Wirt Benson, original author of Nancy Drew detective series, ...
		TOLEDO, Ohio – Mildred Wirt Benson, the author who created Nancy Drew, girl sleuth, and inspired generations of young women with the teen-age heroine's spunk, independence and resourcefulness, has died at 96.
		Benson fell ill Tuesday at The Blade newspaper, where she wrote a weekly column about daily life and the elderly.
		Benson never cared for the "modern" Nancy and refused to sign her name on any of the new books.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/obituaries/20020529-1317-obit-benson.html (912 words)

	Bookreporter.com - In Memoriam: Mildred Wirt Benson
		Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson was born in Ladora, Iowa on July 10, 1905.
		Although Benson continued working as a journalist for 58 years, she managed to write more than 130 books and countless short stories.
		Mildred Benson passed away on May 28 at the age of 96.
	aol.bookreporter.com /authors/au-benson-mildred-wirt.asp (265 words)

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