“Anne, are your remarks”: Harriet Adams to Anne Hagan, September 19, 1973, SSR/NYPL, box 38.
“I must tell you quite frankly”: Harriet Adams to Anne Hagan, May 24, 1973, SSR/NYPL, box 38.
“National Lampoon”:”The Case of the Missing Heiress,” National Lampoon, June 1974, p. 66.
“A mock interview with an aged Nancy”: Rosalyn Drexler, “The Real Nancy Drew,” New York Times Magazine, October 19, 1975.
“Belittling and reversing/I did not tell all”: “Missing the Mark,” Letters, New York Times Magazine, November 23, 1975.
“Nobody’s sure why/Their impact on me”: Dick Pothier, “Nancy Drew Mystery: Her New Popularity,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 21, 1975.
“I can foresee”: Rose DeWolf, “The REAL Mystery Behind Nancy Drew,” Philadelphia Bulletin Sunday Magazine, January 13, 1974.
“Janis Ian”: Bob Sarlin, “Janis Ian at 24,” Crawdaddy, February 1976.
“Edna Squier passed away”: diary of Harriet Adams, SSP/Beinecke, box 7.
“Harriet bought back”: Harriet Adams to Marian Svenson, February 4, 1976, SSR/NYPL, box 72.
“Mrs. Adams originally agreed”: Ed Zuckerman, “The Great Hardy Boys Whodunit,” Rolling Stone, September 9, 1976.
“Two extremely bright”: Cecil Smith, “Producers Bank on Mystery Series,” Bradenton (FL) Herald, March 6, 1977.
“It has taken Nancy Drew”: Winifred Elze, “Juvenile Mysteries Are in Vogue,” Newton Kansan, July 29, 1977.
“For more than 45 years”: Mildred Benson to Dixon Dern, November 12, 1975, private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.
“Dear Mr. Lapin”: Mildred Benson to Geoff Lapin, April 24, 1978, private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.
“How could they take”: Ruth Danckert, “Nancy TV,” Springfield (MA) Union, February 23, 1977, SSR/NYPL, box 341.
“Ratings for Pamela Sue Martin’s”:Laredo (TX) Citizen, April 29, 1977, SSR/NYPL, box 341.
“At a younger age”: Lana Russ, Independence (OR) Enterprise-Herald, April 27, 1977, SSR/NYPL, box 341.
“Pamela Sue Martin”:Modern People, February 12, 1978, SSR/NYPL, box 349.
“I’m not gearing my career”: “Pamela Sue Martin: Why I’ve Quit Nancy Drew,” National Enquirer, February 28, 1978.
“In July 1978”: “Nancy Drew Grows Up,” Playboy, July 1978, pp. 86–92, 184.
“Fit to be tied”: Melanie Rehak interview with Nancy Axelrad, Indianapolis, IN, June 14, 2003.
“Can the reputation”: “Author Protects Nancy Drew: Sleuth Won’t Enter the 70s,” Hackensack (NJ) Record, November 30, 1978, SSR/NYPL, box 353.
“Confessed to having”: “She Tells about Her Banning in Boston,” Shrewsbury (NJ) Daily Register, September 22, 1978, SSR/NYPL, box 356.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: WILL THE REAL CAROLYN KEENE PLEASE STAND UP?
“We’re extraordinarily happy about”: Richard Haitch, “At 83, Her Pen Is Far from Dry,” New York Times, March 27, 1977. (The New York Times, in fact, gave the wrong age for Harriet Adams; by the time of this article she would have been eighty-four.)
“It occurred to me recently”: Harriet Adams to Manuel Siwek, June 16, 1969, SSR/NYPL, box 40.
“Harriet just absolutely held out”: Melanie Rehak interview with Nancy Axelrad, Indianapolis, IN, June 14, 2003.
“$300 million”: Grosset & Dunlap v. Gulf & Western Corporation and Stratemeyer Syndicate, 79 Civ 2242/79 Civ 3745 (1980), pre-trial memo, p. 3 (hereafter cited as G&D v. SS.)
“Said he regretted”: “Grosset Sues Simon & Schuster and Stratemeyer for $50 Million,” Publishers Weekly, May 7, 1979.
“I think in some way”: Melanie Rehak interview with Nancy Axelrad, Indianapolis, IN, June 14, 2003.
“In spite of”: “Stratemeyer and S&S Call Grosset Suit Frivolous,” Publishers Weekly, May 14, 1979.
“A model of”: Joanne Kaufman, “The Adventures of Harriet Adams,” Good Housekeeping, May 1980.
“She’s read something like”: Edward Wakin, “Solving the Nancy Drew Mystery,” American Way, September 1979.
“I think my father”: Jane See White, “Nancy Drew Is 18 Going on 50,” Chicago Tribune, March 9, 1980.
“Making Nancy a bit more”: Elizabeth Bumiller, “Nancy Drew: Squeaky Clean and Still Eighteen,” Washington Post, April 17, 1980.
“I thought you might be interested”: Susan Aukema to Frank Paluka, March 4, 1980, MAWB/IWA, box 1.
“Many thanks”: Mildred Benson to Frank Paluka, March 11, 1980, MAWB/IWA, box 1.
“With honored guest”: Program for Nancy Drew fiftieth anniversary party, SSR/NYPL, box 63.
“Some terribly serious contemporary writers”: All the information on the Nancy Drew fiftieth anniversary party in this section comes from Elizabeth Bumiller, “Nancy Drew: Squeaky Clean and Still Eighteen,” Washington Post, April 17, 1980.
“I thought you were dead”: Geoffrey S. Lapin, “The Ghost of Nancy Drew,” Books at Iowa 50 (April 1989).
“As you no doubt know”: Mildred Benson to Nancy Hall, October 8, 1979, private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.
“In the early books”: All excerpts from Harriet Adams’s testimony come from G&D v. SS, pp. 342, 833.
“In the course”: All excerpts from Mildred Benson’s testimony in this section come from G&D v. SS, pp. 111, 176, 177, 189, 193, 225, 232.
“Even if I didn’t”: Mildred Benson to Geoffrey S. Lapin, October 23, 1980, private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.
“Skyrocketing Sales”: Simon & Schuster press release, January 29, 1981, SSR/NYPL, box 54.
“On July 31”: sales agreement, July 31, 1984, SSP/Beinecke, box 2.
“Juvenile publishing”: Simon & Schuster press release, August 2, 1980, SSP/Beinecke, box 2.
“We have to breathe”: Anne McGrath, “Eye on Publishing,” Wilson Library Bulletin, December 1984.
“Nancy Drew will now”: Lorelai Starck, “That Daring Detective Nancy Drew,” Milwaukee Reader 44, no. 34 (August 25, 1986).
“Nancy studied herself”: Carolyn Keene, Secrets Can Kill (New York: Archway Pocket Books, 1986), pp. 2–3.
“Extrapolated the new”: Deborah Felder, “Nancy Drew: Then and Now,” Publishers Weekly, May 30, 1986.
“All Nancy has to do”: Carolyn Keene, Two Points to Murder (New York: Archway/ Pocket Books, 1987).
“It is the 1980s”: Robert Basler, “A New Image for Nancy Drew,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 29, 1986.
“We’re trying to promote”: Deborah Felder, “Nancy Drew: Then and Now,” Publishers Weekly, May 30, 1986.
“The day the obituary”: Jack A. Seamonds, “The Case of Nancy Drew’s Creator,” Zanesville (OH) Times Record, n.d. (May 1982).
“Before Geraldine Ferraro”: “The Secret of the Ghost(writer) of Ladora,” Iowa Alumni Review 38, no. 3 (May/June 1985).
“This should mark the end”: Mildred Benson to Frank Paluka, December 14, 1982, MAWB/IWA, box 1.
“It seems to me”: “The Secret of the Ghost(writer) of Ladora,” Iowa Alumni Review 38, no. 3 (May/June 1985).
“If I am not able”: Mildred Benson to Geoffrey S. Lapin, n.d. (September 1992), private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.
“The Great Purge”: Cullen Murphy, “Starting Over,” Atlantic Monthly, June 1991, pp. 18–21.
“Nancy is no longer”: Jackie Vivelo, “The Mystery of Nancy Drew,” Ms. 3, no. 2 (November/December 1992), p. 76.
“Mildred Wirt Benson”: Mona Gable, “The Real-Life Heroine Who Wrote Nancy Drew,” Los Angeles Times, August 16, 1991.
“Bemused at this group of grown-ups”: Cher Bibler, “Behind Nancy Drew: A Life of Mildred Benson,” Wasteland Review, February 1993.
“Anything about Nancy Drew”: Mildred Benson to Geoffrey S. Lapin, March 13, 1994, private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.
“Peter Jennings”:World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, April 16, 1993.
“‘The Crack in the Cannon’”: Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy
Tillman Romalov, eds., Rediscovering Nancy Drew (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995).
“One woman . . . said”: Jon Anderson, “Drew Still Draws,” Chicago Tribune, April 26, 1993.
“I think she took”: Mildred Benson press conference, University of Iowa Nancy Drew Conference, Iowa City, IA, April 17, 1993.
“Carrying a red leather”: Patricia Leigh Brown, “A Ghostwriter and Her Sleuth: 63 Years of Smarts and Gumption,” New York Times, May 9, 1993.
“Well, I’ll see you later”: Mike Tressler, “The Secret of the Ageless Scribe,” Editor & Publisher, June 3, 2002.
“But how can”: Carolyn Keene, The Slumber Party Secret (New York: Minstrel/Pocket Books, 1994), p. 1.
“It’s 65 years later”: Simon & Schuster press release, May 1995, SSR/NYPL, box 54.
“The classic Nancy Drew sleuth”: The critic is Jennifer Fisher, president of the Nancy Drew Sleuths. Much more about Jenn and Nancy Drew can be found at www.nancydrewsleuth.com.
“You write about”: Jim DeRogatis, “Tuscadero Applies Lessons Learned to Songs,” Chicago Sun-Times, September 22, 1995.
“Like hamburgers”: Judy Polumbaum, “The Case of the Girl Detective,” Boston Globe, June 6, 1993.
“This quality”: Reprinted in Harper’s Magazine, November 1995.
“Nancy Drew, girl sleuth”: Jennifer Frey, “A True Woman of Mystery,” Washington Post, May 30, 2002.
“Nancy Drew demands have about”: Mildred Benson to Geoffrey S. Lapin, n.d. (September 1992), private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.
“It reached the point”: Roberta deBoer, “Millie’s Gone, but She Didn’t Go Meekly,” Toledo Blade, May 30, 2002.
“It’s hard to accept”: Mary McNamara, “An Appreciation: Clued in to a Life of Adventure,” Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2002.
“Long before Charlie’s Angels/the cover design”: Simon & Schuster promotional materials, January 2004, collection of the author.
“My friends always tell me”: Carolyn Keene, Without a Trace (New York: Aladdin Books, 2004), pp. 1, 53.
“In 2002”: Gary Strauss, “Nancy Drew Dusts Off ‘Musty Appeal’ for New Readers,” USA Today, January 15, 2004.
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