Nancy Drew
is a fictional character in a juvenile mystery fiction
series created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer. The character first
appeared in 1930; the books have been ghostwritten
by a number of authors and are published under the collective pseudonym
Carolyn Keene. The
character has proved continuously popular worldwide: at least 80 million copies
of the books have been sold, and the
books have been translated into over 45 languages. A cultural icon,
Nancy Drew has been cited as a formative influence by a number of women, from Supreme Court
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Sonia Sotomayor
to Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton and former First Lady
Laura Bush.
Nancy Drew is a fictional amateur sleuth. In the original versions of the series
she was a 16-year-old high school graduate, and in later versions was rewritten
and aged to be an 18-year-old high school graduate and detective. In the
series, she lives in the fictional town of River Heights with her father,
attorney Carson Drew, and their housekeeper, Hannah Gruen.
As a child she lost her mother (at age 10 in the original versions; at age 3 in
the later versions); this would reflect in her early independence (running a
household since the age of ten with a clear-cut servant, to later, deferring to
the servant as a surrogate parent). As a teenager she spends her time solving
mysteries, some of which she stumbles upon and some of which begin as cases of
her father's. Nancy is often assisted in solving mysteries by her two closest
friends, Bess Marvin and George Fayne,
and also occasionally by her boyfriend, Ned Nickerson,
who is a college student at Emerson College.
List of Nancy Drew books:
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Two of my favorite books of Nancy Drew were the
Invisible Intruder and The Clue
of the Dancing Puppet.
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