- Author: Carolyn Keene Author Record # 9039
- Language: English
- Webpages: Library of Congress, Wikipedia-EN
- Used As Alternate Name By: Mike McQuay, unknown, Sharon Wagner
- Note: House pseudonym. Carolyn Keene is the named author of all works in series featuring girl detectives Nancy Drew (Nancy Drew Universe, 1930 to present) and The Dana Girls (1934 to 1979). The Stratemeyer Syndicate and its successors have hired writers to share the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. For The Kachina Doll Mystery (1981), US Copyright record TX0000826697 states in part: Title The Kachina doll mystery / by Carolyn Keene [pseud.] ; illustrated by Paul Frame. Copyright Claimant Stratemeyer Syndicate Authorship on Application Stratemeyer Syndicate, employer for hire. Edward Stratemeyer outlined several Nancy Drew mysteries in 1929 and hired Mildred Wirt Benson, who wrote 23 of the first 30 volumes. His daughter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams wrote many, revised all the early volumes, and directed the entire effort through the 1970s. Leslie McFarlane (main early author of The Hardy Boys), Benson, and Adams wrote all the Dana Girls volumes. Others who have written Nancy Drew stories include: through the 1970s Walter Karig and Charles S. Strong; 1979 to 1985, Nancy Axelrad, James Duncan Lawrence, Mike McQuay, Sharon Wagner; after 1985, Carol Gorman, Ellen Steiber, Susan Wittig Albert.
Alternate Name. See:
Mike McQuay, unknown, Sharon Wagner
(or view all titles published using this alternate name)