Nancy Drew‘s first four mystery stories join the public domain in 37 days. She’s now the star of a multimedia franchise, and subject of a fascinating UMD Libraries exhibit.
Nancy’s true authorship was once its own mystery. Syndicate contracts hid writers’ identities behind the pen name “Carolyn Keene”. A rights dispute in which Harriet Adams claimed sole credit turned up Nancy’s original ghostwriter, Mildred Wirt Benson. Adams’s reaction: “I thought you were dead.” #PublicDomainDayCountdown
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@everybodyslibraries.com It's a case of a "sock person", where several different people inhabit one fictional identity, the opposite of a "sock puppet".
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