I, Mildred A. Wirt, am here to write to you about my life so far. In case if you were wondering, I am Carolyn Keene, the author of the brilliant Nancy Drew series. I was not the only author for this writing though, so I can't take all of the credit. Harriet Addams was also writing for the same company and the same books. As you can guess that lead to tons of conflicts.
I was born on July 10, 1905. That is 24 years of doing a job I love to do. But there were also lots of hard times in the work force as an author as well. I was not alone and Mrs. Adams was always by my side, but we did not get along as well as we should.
The biggest conflict between her and me is that we have completely different styles of writing. We would always disagree on waht and who Nancy Drew should be and be known as. We had really two different perspectives of the image we wanted to show for her. But when Harriet died on March 27, 1982 she left something behind with her. The popularity and to be needed in writing.
To become instantly popular and people giving you writing assignments left to right can be very stressful. You have dead lines for when work needs to be completed, so you're being rushed all the time. But it all pays off in the end.
So we had our first Nancy Drew conference at Universtiy of JA. That was in 1933. It went pretty well. We talked about all of the success we had and what we should and could improve on. We got great reviews for our work to make Nancy a great hit. Writings of the 56 books of her were great! She is selling all over the world now.
But now that I am 96 years old, I am officially retired from the writing business. I loved writing for Edward and his company. And I was basically Nancy's Guradian Angle, always making for sure she solved the greatest mysteries and always caught the bad guy. I tried to make Nancy an intelligent, spirited, confident, and talkented young lady that would inspire tons of women around the world I want her to stay like that for as long as she is a living popularity in her life time.
